[Gloucs] Bill Gates Faces God

[Oli Restorick]

Hi there

If you really want some Microsoft posters and other stuff, I'm sure I can
get some sent to you.  Let me know.

Cheers

Oli



-----Original Message-----
From: gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Guy Edwards
Sent: 30 October 2003 19:12
To: MAILING LIST
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Bill Gates Faces God

I don't know if you'll find the following funny, maybe predictable is
the word, anyway.... (if you're from Sun then the following is all
"allegedly" and made up) 

I was asked to brighten up some of the computer labs with posters etc
and so I emailed a few of the IT companies. We contacted Microsoft, IBM,
SUSE, Redhat, Oracle, Compaq and Sun.

Microsoft wanted to charge us for any posters which we declined (my
marketing manager declared the posters "not very good"). 

Redhat, Compaq and Oracle haven't replied and it doesn't seem like they
will.

Suse got back within a day to say they were shipping us some goods. A
couple of days later a number of posters arrived, information packs,
SUSE posters, SUSE+LPI certification path posters, keychains, stickers,
mouse mats and stick it pads all with SUSE on.

IBM have emailed to say they're preparing a dispatch to us, I somehow
doubt it will be small.

Sun emailed a not so small legal warning that we weren't under any
circumstances to display their company name or logo etc. To be fair
after the threat they did then invite us to join their academic program
for providing Sun courses (John? Something the uni might be interested
in too?). Presumably this might give us permission to do something
adventurous like put sun posters on the wall too, although they haven't
said.

Guy



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