OpenOffice in Microsoft’s Turf…
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I just came across this story on Digg -
OpenOffice’s anti-MSFT bus ads in Redmond
“Sun Microsystems has posted extremely pointed OpenOffice.org ads on the sides of transit buses that serve Redmond. Slogans include, ‘Stop giving a bully your lunch money,’ ‘Compatible with expensive, closed, memory-loving software,’ and ‘Prehistoric reptilians welcome.’ Booya!”
Well, I really thought this was great. Wade Rockett posted on ‘The New Marketing‘ that this morning, he began to see a variety of ads for OpenOffice.org’s Office suite posted by Sun Microsystems on busses across the city of Bellavue, which is very close to Redmond.
The ads, which appear to be targetted at local business people, and possibly even microsoft employees, focus on the many of the benefits of OpenOffice.org over the defacto standard, Microsoft Office.
Of course, this move hasn’t gone unnoticed by Microsoft. On ‘The .NET Sweatshop’, Microsoft Developer SandyK fires back with some cutting remarks about Sun.
The ads have been posted below. These are from the flickr gallery by Wade Rockett. If you want any of the T-Shirts shown in the ads, you can get them from Sun Microsystems’ Sun Open Source Store.
