Juan Manuel de Villeros said:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:52:42 -0500, Data Goob <datagoob@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Mark Townsend wrote:
>> > Data Goob wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> By the way I heard the buzz on the floor at the Oracle conference
>> >> this week was that most of the people attending were from India.
>> >> Probably will be more beneficial next conference to just host it
>> >> in India to help all those companies doing the outsourcing save
>> >> even more money by not having it in one of the most expensive
>> >> towns on the planet, San Francisco.
>> >>
>> >
>> > This is a completely incorrect statement. Exactly 0.41% of the
>> attendees
>> > at OW in San Francisco cited India as the country they are from. There
>> > are more people attending from Mexico and Japan than from India. India
>> > HAS just recently had their own OW conference, as has Shanghai, Sao
>> > Paulo, London, Amsterdam and Melbourne.
>>
>> The statement is not completely incorrect. The information may
>> be incorrect, or contain statements that are not verifiable, but
>> the statement parses correctly. It was communicated correctly, but may
>> contain incorrect information.
>>
> ** snip **
>
>
> My parser shows at least three warnings in the statement.

Yes, I thought it was a rather bold claim for an American to make, myself.

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