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Who has a China monoply?
Is it you contention that everyone is wrong and China is not an emerging consumer? Are suggesting that they have a massive infastructure that must be maintained? Surely not.

Oops, wait a minute. There are very few computers in China and even less businesses using them. Are they somehow "locked in" in to MS Office as you constantly claim? Well um, no...

Are you suggesting that Sun is wasting their time? (You may be right.)

As I said, a completely new market where there is competition. And that is a good thing. Unless of course you have no faith in your product...
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If they are going to do outsourcing, why not?  DonnieBoy | 11/21/03
Exactly  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
I agree...  prime21 | 11/21/03
.Net to free the world  MIKE C0X | 11/21/03
.Net to free the world  michael-t | 11/21/03
Communism  NemesisNL | 11/21/03
Tongue in...  dsentman@... | 11/21/03
Competition, gotta love it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Um, what are you referring to??...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
Gee, sure looks like competition.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
You always purposely exclude the important parts  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
So tell me of knowledgable one.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Um, do you EVER provide links???  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
Links to your claims? No I can't.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
To compete in China...  B.O.F.H. | 11/21/03
I agree, it is competition.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
China and .NET  dsentman@... | 11/21/03
Meeting of "free world" presidents  FirstNLastN | 11/21/03
Yep, the parallels are so totally unavoidable wink  dicktaurus@... | 11/21/03
sounds like they bribed them to use .Net  Arrg | 11/21/03
You must mean Sun's million computers.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
No, he meant .NET  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
No twist to it. You do read don't you?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Yes I know about the Sun contract  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
Good, then you understand it's competition.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Um, Bittie..we're all waiting for YOU to "get on board"  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
Give up on Bitty.  Damon K | 11/21/03
Message has been deleted.  Plain Logic | 11/21/03
Nice try little fellow. Wrong, but still nice.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/22/03
What Sun sent to China  B.O.F.H. | 11/21/03
Don'tcha love the timing? Um, yeah, China needs .NYET like a locust plague.  dicktaurus@... | 11/21/03
Microsoft are terrified  jellyclock | 11/21/03
Um, you meant "Microsoft *is* terrified." LOL...  dicktaurus@... | 11/21/03
Yup, terrified enough to pull out the big hammer  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Um, dude..you must have been under a rock lately  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
You mean Sun is terrified of .NET  John Zern | 11/21/03
Of course they are. Sun is hurting.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Huh?  prime21 | 11/21/03
Time will tell, but if the past is an indicator...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Kill the MS/Linux rumor now or prove a slither of proof  Richard Flude | 11/21/03
So your saying it's competition then.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Monopolists are NOT competitors..it's just that simple  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/21/03
Who has a China monoply?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
By the way,,,  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/21/03
Over a dozen posts saying nothing new . . . what a loser !!!  Plain Logic | 11/21/03
Ummm, I know you work for Microsoft, but...  Damon K | 11/21/03
Yeah, let's just keep watching...  IT_User | 11/21/03
Not sure what you mean  John Zern | 11/21/03
Well, maybe a little U.S.?  IT_User | 11/21/03
This will be interesting to watch...  dsentman@... | 11/22/03
Hmmmmm . . . MS trying to buy market share? How many users will $50B buy ??  Plain Logic | 11/21/03
Open-source will ultimately prevail  emartin_z | 11/21/03
question to the linux fans  zijiang | 11/21/03
Answer...  prime21 | 11/22/03
Only part of the story, and not necessarily the end....  dsentman@... | 11/22/03
ms could  lmaxwell | 11/23/03
Microsoft uses BSD for its SFU (Services For Unix)  B.O.F.H. | 11/23/03
"They are getting trashed??"  Mark Miller | 11/23/03
funny  lmaxwell | 11/22/03
china giving up on opensource  lmaxwell | 11/22/03
lmaxwell is delusional - and obviously didn't read the article.  Plain Logic | 11/23/03

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