Sun in Microsoft Land!!
After a long time, the sun shone brightly in the Seattle skies and made its presence felt overhead. Another Sun is also making its presence felt here; if you take a ride in one of the King county Metro buses that criss-cross the Redmond campus and look at the Ad Banners overhead.
Sun Microsystems has come up with creative ads promoting OpenOffice. The ad shows people dressed in T-shirts that have witty one-liners printed on them.
Here are a few ones that caught my attention.
Stop giving a bully your lunch money.
By the people, for the people.
Compatible with expensive, closed and memory loving software.
Pick a vendor. Any Vendor.
Tired of being taken for a ride.
US-opoly.
We do windows, too.
Pre-historic reptilians welcome.
The ads also have been put up very strategically. This is for the first time that I have seen software being advertised in a public transit system!! I wonder if Microsoft will ever do this. It is good to see this new trend in advertising and promoting a software product.
I for sure, feel tempted to check out the latest offering from OpenOffice after seeing these well-thought of ads!!