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If you are taking social psychology as well, maybe you can write a paper to explain why marketing tactics actually work, I never understood that one.
Why is using imagery and imparting moods more effective at selling than facts and a track record?
Once you have finished that paper, please send it to me, because I still don't understand.
e.g. last night on TV there was a Bridgestone commercial, talking about integrity, reliability. It seems obvious to me that their sales have dropped, they did a marketing study and discovered that ooops! People don't trust them anymore. So they concoct an advertisement to present themselves as reliable, to plug a hole so to speak. This is just an example, most of the ads on TV seem to be about plugging holes...
Another example was that MS ad about the system administrator with nothing to do because she was using Windows2000 servers, and therefore had no worries about anything ever going wrong...
The list could go on and on.
And these ads actually work! I just don't get it.
(this is my opinion, not that of my employers, etc. etc., I am responsible for the effect of sharing my honest opinions, blah blah blah)
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
-----Original Message----- From: Roy Ferguson [SMTP:rferguso_at_level1.com] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 6:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Windows vs. UNIX this information is actually a proposal that I created for a college course I'm taking...I have a lot of experience with UNIX and very little with Windows...that's why I only needed the facts and no opinions...subscribing).
>
>Roy,
>
>Forgive me my lack of understanding, but if you don't
>know why one would choose Unix over Windows, why are
>you proposing Unix altogether?
>
>Yosi
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roy Ferguson [mailto:rferguso_at_level1.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 2:46 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>> Subject: Windows vs. UNIX
>>
>>
>> this is not to bring up a heated debate over the two platforms...
>>
>> I am making a proposal to move the current access 97
>> databases to an oralce
>> platform running solaris.... I would like to put in the
>> proposal a brief reason
>> why a UNIX platform will be better than a Windows platform.
>>
>> the current environment:
>>
>> MS Access 97 databases running on Compaq server. Databases
>> are about 20GB in
>> size...
>>
>> proposed solution:
>>
>> Sun E3500
>> T3 Storage Array
>> Solaris 8
>> Oracle 8i
>>
>> Just need a couple FACTS as to why one would choose UNIX over
>> Windows....
>>
>> Thanks in advance....
>> roy
>>
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