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

From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:21:33 GMT

David J. Dachtera wrote:
> 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?

Interesting.... would these be the guys with the data center in the old salt
mine?

Just imagine the twists in the VMS marketing possibilities...

[wicked humor]
If the XXX Church can track [whatever] and [relationships] between people,
just imagine what a similar OpenVMS system can do for your Homeland Security
De.......er...police state.....er....Communist regime. The possibilites for
abuses are endless. Coupled with implantable RFID technology you'll be able
to know exactly where each of your citizens/subjects are at all times, whom
they associate with and when, and when tied to financial, library, health
and other records, and advanced heuristics, you'll also be able to know what
they will do next -- even before they do!!!

Be in totalitarian control. Only with OpenVMS from HP.
[/wicked humor]

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