Big Blue Smoke: Sun Uses Humor to Take Shots at IBM | Linux Today

Big Blue Smoke: Sun Uses Humor to Take Shots at IBM

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 15, 2002

“Santa Clara, CA – In a stunning response to continued assaults
by industry titan IBM, Sun Microsystems today launched a web site.
www.bigbluesmoke.com is reported to be the first known use of
Internet Technology Competitive Humor (ITCH). Designed to expose
the typewriter company’s Obfuscation Infrastructure with a healthy
dose of humor and truth, ITCH is an updated version of the foolery
of ancient times. It is not yet clear how or if IBM will respond to
this assault. However, an inside source indicated that ‘Big Blue’
will be forming an inter-Series cross-functional marketing
committee to discuss what response to purchase. When reached for
comment, the publisher of Big Blue Smoke said, ‘We need everyone’s
help to watchdog all the puffery and folly. If readers have stories
or comments to share, please email me at
editor@bigbluesmoke.com…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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