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hartr@redhat.com wrote:
> When you dig under the covers of this, what I was told was the many tech
> companies in the US regard Australia as a really good test market for
> high tech stuff.
>
> We are similar enough to the US so that results here have an adequate
> correlation to eventual results in the US, whilst we are small enough
> and isolated enough to not matter if they screw things up in our market.

And...

I don't know if it's still true, but Australia was about the only place in
the world that had just about everybody in the IT world competing against
each other. Which added to its attraction as a test market.

-- 
Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought
titanium.
-- unknown
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brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
brd@dynamite.com.au
brd@austarmetro.com.au

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