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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery

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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2120)12/19/2003 9:56:31 AM
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Sun Shines on China
By Jason Brooks
December 1, 2003



A few years ago, a James Bond film hit the screens that centered on a scheme to secure exclusive TV broadcasting rights in China for 100 years. Aside from demonstrating just how lame the Bond series had become, the plot pointed to the enormous promise of the 1.3-billion-person Chinese market. At last month's Comdex, Sun Microsystems chief Scott McNealy borrowed a page from the Bond script when he announced that Sun will be selling as many as 1 million copies of its newly minted Linux-based Java Desktop System to China in the next year.

The announcement is certainly a big one for Sun. However, the deal marks a much bigger milestone for free software in general, and it points the way to how Linux will come to clean Microsoft's clock on the desktop.

eweek.com
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