April 1 jokes are hard - so we outsourced it to Jim's Group

April Fool's Day is a strange time in the tech world.

For tech companies, it's an opportunity for a bit of viral marketing or just an excuse for a well-placed joke. Some faux product announcements even end up coming to life, such as April 1st 2018 when Google Maps was transformed into a real-life game of 'Where's Wally?'

But for CRN it means a fake product announcements flooding our inbox. Some are hilarious, others are less so.

We try to join the party each year, but we know the best pranks are self-referential. And to be honest this year we just ran out of time to write a good gag about ourselves (sorry, there's a lot of channel that needs covering!)

We did, however have some fun in the office with the Jim's Meme Generator.

If you somehow forgot, Jim's Group (best known for the Jim's Mowing franchisee business) has adapted to nearly 50 different services, covering everything from dog washing to interior design. Jim's even opened up a telco business in 2015.

So we envisioned what it would look like if Jim's adopted any of the tech buzzwords of the past few years into a new franchise. Reckon any of these business ideas have legs?

Huawei takes hit after hit for its security woes and general naughtiness. How better to turn things around than an alliance with an organisation as utterly Aussie as Jim's?

Face it: 5G will be overhyped and expensive for quite some time to come. A dose of Jim's sensible approach to everything is the only sane way to bring 5G to Australia.

Everyone talks agility. The Jim's Group's extenensive range of service shows it is the true Agile Master. Come teach us, Jim!

Couldn't be any more scammy or weird or volatile than any cryptocurrency, could it?

Might as well, no? See Jim's Bitcoin, too.

The NBN remains a mess for myriad reasons. Let's hand it over to Jim to fnish it off properly!

Microsoft has a Kubernetes (K8s) service. Google has a Kubernetes (K8s) service. So does VMware. And IBM. And just about everyone else. Enter Jim's ...

The world wants subscription services. We're not sure what Jim's monthly is or does, but it'll impress  investors.

Jim's already offers electrical services, drone photography and security. IoT is an adjacency waiting to happen!

Hands up who doesn't want Jim on their wrists to help measure your bio-something while mowing the lawn or doing jobs around the house? As we suspected, zero hands are up that we can see from here!

The rate at which cloud-competent consultancies are being acquired means it just makes sense for Jim's to start an AWS practice. The formular is simple: specialise in AWS, get to about $2m revenue, then get bought. That's easy for Jim!

See previous slide, but substitute "AWS" for "DevOps"