China orders 200 Million linux installs from Sun

[symphonix]

China has ordered 200 MILLION copies of Linux from Sun Microsystems.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....RBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=3850951

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56307-2003Nov18.html

http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32168.html

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16101121

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/34068.html

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,545432,00.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34057.html

 

[nb3004]

wow thats quite a lot

 

[OmegaMan]

Hopefully they won't clog Sun's servers, by d/ling the disk images! :->

 

[Satcomer]

I have the strong feeling that Microsoft is going to pull out all of the stops to try to torpedo this deal with China. This announcement must be driving them nuts.

 

[TommyWillB]

I have the strong feeling that Microsoft is going to pull out all of the stops to try to torpedo this deal with China. This announcement must be driving them nuts.

What?

By announcing that China has already more than that many pirated copies of Windows 2000?