Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 04, 2004 08:55 PM
EIOffice runs on Linux and Windows, so it doesn't really matter whether the user has Red Flag or Redmond on his machine. What's important is that he or she can generate and open files that have been created by others using MS Office.
Two considerations:
First, it's hard to trace Chinese company ownership. A number of companies, particularly those with products that can be marketed in the West, have ties to the PLA (the Chinese military).
Second, the price that we see is that for overseas consumption. I suspect that the local price would be much, much lower. Remember that the Yuan (RMB)is artificially pegged to the dollar.
I doubt that it's a bad strategy from their perspective. They're not trying to take out Microsoft, just to capture a reasonable fraction of a very large market.
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Re:bad strategy?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 04, 2004 08:55 PMTwo considerations:
First, it's hard to trace Chinese company ownership. A number of companies, particularly those with products that can be marketed in the West, have ties to the PLA (the Chinese military).
Second, the price that we see is that for overseas consumption. I suspect that the local price would be much, much lower. Remember that the Yuan (RMB)is artificially pegged to the dollar.
I doubt that it's a bad strategy from their perspective. They're not trying to take out Microsoft, just to capture a reasonable fraction of a very large market.
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