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GIBO Groep
25 April 2003
A superb result! With more passion and commitment than you might expect from a self-styled "sober group" of Dutch accountants
OpenBSD
17 April 2003
More musical magic from the opensource world! The Power of Sun
11 April 2003
Updated:Finally -- we present the anthem everyone thought was lost for ever, in all its pompous glory! At Honeywell our Quest is Quality
4 April 2003
Let's all make tomorrow better than today, with the smiling folks at Honeywell's industral controls division! The Free Software Song
28 March 2003
Richard Stallman, and others in the open source movement, show that the IT anthem is not just a capitalist phenomenon Pass: Ride On
21 March 2003
What is it with Germans and corporate anthems? Check out these consultants, sounding uncannily like Californians, making the future better for you and me Checkpoint: We secure the Internet
14 March 2003
The IT anthems curse strikes -- and strikes very hard -- at serious Internet security people Asera rocks the world
7 March 2003
We revive two of the favourite tracks of IT Anthems. Shame we can't do the same for Asera, which went the way of all dot-coms in January Apple's greatest hits
28 February 2003
Three new songs reveal just why the rest of the industry hates Apple! Rock on, dudes! Nvidia: Take the world by SoundStorm
21 February 2003
More gasps and moans per minute than an audio processing system really merits, we feel... 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - element 5 unplugged!
21 Februray 2003
A new cooler version of the rocking German outsourcers' song Sensormatic: I told you we could fly
14 February 2003
He's back! Per-Olof Loof, the singing CEO! I believe in Teradata
7 February 2003
Is this a database leader, or a boy band? Mindtree -- Imagination, Action Joy!
31 January 2003
A socially responsible anthem from the company that cares, because it can Texas Instruments Fast Forward
17 January 2003
Three massive Texan rock'n'roll hymns to digital signal processing -- and great customer service, of course Ericsson Wap Rap
10 January 2003
Four great tracks from the mobile phone masters. How bad do you think a WAP rap can be? Find out here Ever Onward IBM!
3 January 2003
At last, the return of possibly the greatest IT Anthem of them all. Don't miss the great Flash animation! Unisys - we eat, sleep and drink this stuff
27 December 2002
Stevie Wonder-esque soul from the venerable data centre. Not to be missed KPMG - the Power of One
20 December 2002
A recently discovered early track from the rock-gods of IT Anthems, KPMG. Don't miss the version sung by a choir of children. And new versions of the band's hit, Global Strategy, keep on coming 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - element 5!
6 December 2002
The rocking German software house that outsourced its song Come on board with BlackBerry
29 November 2002
Updated: BlackBerry catches a ride from the Love Boat, and leaves us feeling seasick Computas -- share your knowledge
22 November 2002
Updated: The Norwegian knowledge management maestros produced this Eurovision-style cover version in house Ahhhhh Fujitsu!
15 November 2002
Updated: One of the truly great corporate anthems. At Fujitsu, this song brings joy each day -- or so the employees tell us Hewlett-Packard
8 November 2002
Not one, but two anthems from the ink supplier and enterprise IT provider. One is a protest song, the other a chirpy number from HP Services Ernst & Young Happy Day
1 November 2002
We kneel in admiration. Ernst & Young has a corporate Gospel to proclaim. Sing it sister! Philips was my first love
25 October 2002
Words fail us. The zany Dutch tech company excels itself with a cover of one of the defining anthems of the 1970s AT&T: We're AT&T!
18 October 2002
A singing CEO turned a disco classic into a hymn to corporate unity -- and then, wouldn't you know it? The company broke up KPMG: Our vision of global strategy
The classic hit that launched IT Anthems. KPMG's effort and fun have won it a place in our hearts. Watch this space for more new entrants, and the return of some old favourites. Contact us if you have any other classic corporate tracks we should know about.

Talkback

Hi!

You have written:

>This is in fact a German version of the original song from the US,
>recorded by Suns and Noses, the in-house band of Sun Microsystems
>Germany. (If anyone has a file of the original version, send it here as
>we'd love to compare it).

Do you mean the absolute original of it?

If yes, than check the link below!

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/huey-lewis-the-news/the-power-of-
love.html

via Facebook 2 August, 2003 12:20
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Oh no! What happened to the PwC rap? Please, if it's been lost in a dusty drive stuck in a corner, dig it back out & re-post it here!

via Facebook 28 January, 2004 17:18
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Where's the Duetsche Bank IT song? Please please post it back!!

via Facebook 15 October, 2004 20:22
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Hi I wondered what happended to the PWC song "downright global", my life has a massive hole which can only be filled by this classic mallard.

via Facebook 4 November, 2004 00:03
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where is the pwc song?

via Facebook 23 January, 2005 06:09
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PLEEEZE bring back the PwC anthems!

via Facebook 10 May, 2005 03:10
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i love macaroni and cheese!

via Facebook 24 June, 2005 23:29
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Does anyone have a copy of the Walmart chant???

via Facebook 20 August, 2005 09:18
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Yes, bring back the PwC rap, Downright Global! Classic.

via Facebook 8 February, 2006 23:16
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Where is Deloitte's and then you would have the "BIG 4" audit antems !!

via Facebook 16 February, 2006 06:33
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please keep this page up to date, it's such a great moment. I love it and it's a reference for all business school graduate about to choose a company to work for...

via Facebook 18 April, 2006 23:23
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All of the links are broken! Grr!

HubmaN 26 December, 2006 17:53
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At the new <a href="http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000336303b,00.htm">IT Anthems Blog.</a>

All contributions gratefully received.

IT Anthems 2 January, 2007 12:35
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At the new <a href="http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000336303b,00.htm">IT Anthems Blog.</a>

All contributions gratefully received.

IT Anthems 2 January, 2007 12:37
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