Re: Advertising - was Re: [OT/FUN] HP live chat popped up when browsing www.hp.com

From: David J. Dachtera (djesys.nospam_at_fsi.net)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:03:44 -0600

John Smith wrote:
>
> Didier Morandi wrote:
> > Looking for info, I just went to my favourite OpenVMS pages on
> > http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms when a window suddenly popped up on
> > my M$ screen and a chat session started, powered by LivePerson. Here
> > is the log:
> >
> > ---
> > Please wait for an HP Sales Expert to respond.
> > Welcome to HP! My name is Gene. How can I help you today.
> > you: Hello Gene. Are you an OPS5 program or a real person? :-)
> > Gene: I'm real, although I've been called. . . lol
> > Gene: yes, I'm real
> > Gene: just making a little funny
> > Gene: how can I help you
> > you: Good. So I leave you. I'm busy and you will be too. This game is
> > nice. Have a good day. Cheers from Toulouse.
> > you: Didier
> > Gene: Thank you for visiting hp.com. Have a Great Day!
> > Chat session has been terminated by the Sales Expert.
> > ---
> >
> > Experimented that before?
>
> I didn't see it but I also have lots of 'features' disabled in my browser.
>
> On another note, what struck me as I read the VMS home page were the
> following words under a couple of the section headers:
>
> "OpenVMS offers immunity to both planned and unplanned downtime with proven,
> unmatched, continuous computing, including disaster-tolerant, multisite
> clusters spanning 500 miles - at an "open system" price."
>
> and
>
> "OpenVMS is the acknowledged leader for enterprise-scale, bulletproof
> computing and continues to serve the 10 million users who rely on it. Simply
> put, nothing stops it! OpenVMS couples unparalleled functionality with
> enhanced performance, providing the high availability and reliability that
> your applications demand."
>
> These two paragraphs alone could be a pretty good beginning of full-page
> newspaper ad in the Wall Street Journal. A few minor edits (get rid of the
> 10 million users b.s.) and the addition of another couple of paragraphs
> ('that's why XYZ and ABC Corp. rely on OpenVMS to serve millions of
> customers hourly without costly downtime'), et voila, an ad that conveys a
> powerful message to a powerful group of readers, ones who sign cheques for
> large computer systems and for large projects.

I have recently been made aware (in a non-NDA environment yet!) of a
large religious sect that has a geneology database of cica. 5 petabytes
running on an OpenVMS + StorageWorks backend. Not sure which database,
but I'd guess Oracle.

Can you say, "scalability"?

T'would make a good ad, eh? 

-- 
David J. Dachtera
dba DJE Systems
http://www.djesys.com/
Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page:
http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/

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