A couple of years ago when the company I worked for started in the wireless space we looked for investment. One company who wanted to look at investing in us was Micorsoft. Strangely enough the offer conisted of primarly 0% cash and mostly free licenses and consultancy. It was a classic attempt to get us completely reliant on them so if we were succesful then we would owe them $$ big time in license fees. Thankfully the offer was turned down and we are a J2EE/Linux development shop:-).
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A couple of years ago when the company I worked for started in the wireless space we looked for investment. One company who wanted to look at investing in us was Micorsoft. Strangely enough the offer conisted of primarly 0% cash and mostly free licenses and consultancy. It was a classic attempt to get us completely reliant on them so if we were succesful then we would owe them $$ big time in license fees. Thankfully the offer was turned down and we are a J2EE/Linux development shop :-).
I grew up in the UK and feel it is safe to say the sun is void of anything that might be remotely described as the truth.