IBM and WoW

[hammocksleeper]

It's that time of year when everyone who is graduating from university this year is applying and interviewing for jobs...and IBM is trying really hard to recruit all those nerdy WoW-playing engineers! Just take a look at the front page of their website: it's an animation of businessmen and -women in suits morphing into what are supposedly their online WoW characters. The headline reads "Virtual Worlds, real leaders: Online games put the future of business leadership on display." Pretty interesting!

http://www.ibm.com/us/

and

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/giogaming/073007/index.shtml?sa_campaign=message/ideas/leadspace/all/giogames

[kongurous]

It's that time of year when everyone who is graduating from university this year is applying and interviewing for jobs...and IBM is trying really hard to recruit all those nerdy WoW-playing engineers! Just take a look at the front page of their website: it's an animation of businessmen and -women in suits morphing into what are supposedly their online WoW characters. The headline reads "Virtual Worlds, real leaders: Online games put the future of business leadership on display." Pretty interesting!

http://www.ibm.com/us/

and

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/giogaming/073007/index.shtml?sa_campaign=message/ideas/leadspace/all/giogames

Not all of those characters are WoW ones, dude.

[RavenCrusade]

Infact, just one is I believe, but it's still interesting.

[SilverCrusader]

The reason they like it so much is because it is very competitive, just like the business world, where there are millions of companies, trying to make their way.

[Maegtelluma]

I'll have to hope this is still the trend three years from now. Pretty cool nonetheless.