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Giant Red Hat shadowman logo in field, with message, "Calling all enterprisers" Red Hat, you cheeky, cheeky monkeys Red Hat wants to grab the attention of delegates to VMworld Europe in Barcelona with a guerrilla marketing stunt that deploys the biggest hashtag we have seen. For its "Red Hat welcome", the vendor daubed …

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  1. Neil Spellings
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    Good investment

    It's actually a good investment as there are three big tech conferences in Barcelona this month: VMWorld this week, Citrix Synergy next week, and ITExpo the week after.

    Nice move RedHat!

  2. Ben Holmes
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    It's nice to see Red Hat going for the subtle approach.

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    QR Code?

    I thought doing this with a QR code was mandatory these days ...

    1. The FunkeyGibbon
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      Re: QR Code?

      Could you imagine asking the pilot to swing around for another go at scanning it? :-D

      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Wouldn't be the biggest QR fail - Nice compilation here.

  4. The FunkeyGibbon
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    Better the banners from Microsoft on El Reg

    Seriously, those side bars make me thing of Vegas. Vegas = gambling = Windows Server 2012 is a gamble....

  5. Anonymous Coward
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    What banners, all I see is a grey background.

  6. Rob Moss.
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    This is the..

    first great thing RedHat have ever done, ever :)

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