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On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:27:22 -0400, Kyle wrote:
> Every now and then, I'll be looking around Novell's web site and will
> run across a gem. They seem to have a good sense of humor at Novell.
> Take a look at the fourth bullet point under "Guidelines" at the
> following link for an example:
I had forgotten about that one - but yeah, that was a funny one. I can
remember years past when Microsoft employees would show up at the
BrainShare show (some of them ex-Novell, which made things that much more
interesting/fun).
> I recall several years ago when they had a really funny flash video
> about Microsoft spreading FUD. I think it was titled "Why They Lie". I
> guess it's not hosted there any longer.
I do remember that one as well. The Internet Archive does have some of
the pages up there, but they seem to redirect to pages that don't exist
now.
http://www.novell.com/video has some fun stuff on it down under "Other
Marketing Videos" (Yeah, we do have a marketing team <g>). I especially
like the Mac commercial spoofs ("PC Mac Linux [1-3]"). The student
videos are pretty good as well.
> Perhaps Jim Henderson knows of some other funny Novell antics?
One of my favourite antics was back when Drew Major* was here. Drew
always did the Friday keynote at BrainShare; back in the mid-90's,
Novell's marketing organization came up with some "mascots" called Bob
and Tina. Bob and Tina were (I think) intended to be caricatures of
users' management personality types - big bodies, little heads. Drew
apparently hated them (don't know how he really felt, but that's the
impression he gave at the keynotes). I think it was 1996 when that theme
was discontinued, and the organizers gave Drew the green light to destroy
the mascots on-stage. I want to say he did it with a chainsaw - it was
pretty funny. "Bob, Tina - goodbye you pinheads!" was the last thing he
said before cutting them up into bits.
Jim
* For those who don't know, Drew Major was the lead developer and lead
architect of NetWare, and later was the creator of the Internet Caching
Server product, later spun off as Volera, and then re-absorbed into
Novell; some of the technology is now used in the Access Manager product
and in BorderManager as well IIRC. Major is now with Cisco as a result
of their acquisition of Arroyo Video Solutions, which he co-founded with
Paul Sherer - former CTO of 3Com.
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Kyle wrote:
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> Every now and then, I'll be looking around Novell's web site and will
> run across a gem. They seem to have a good sense of humor at Novell.
> Take a look at the fourth bullet point under "Guidelines" at the
> following link for an example:
>
> http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/decalkit.html
Even better is the Redmund Artistic Recycling Project...
Regards,
John
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