Re: HP FUDBusting

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 01/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:15:45 +0000

jlsue wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:55:09 -0600, "David J. Dachtera"
> <djesys.nospam@NeOaSrPtAhMlNiOnWk.net> wrote:
>>
>>I know I've seen Sun's opportunistic ads in print. I think I even saw
>>one in a Time magazine in my dentist's office.
>>
>>...and hp's response is only available online.
>>
>>I wonder which one(s) got the most exposure?
>
>
> Hey, I've got an idea, why doesn't HP retroactively put it's print-ad
> rebuttal into those very same magazines? Oh, wait....
>
> Sheesh, how often have you actually seen print ads that rebut a competitors
> ads? It's not the best way to spend your advertising dollars.
>

Well the alternative would be to actually advertise Tru64
and OpenVMS, that would establish that you are interested
in people buying them etc etc.

Now how hard would that be ?

regards
Andrew Harrison