Replies to post #2800 on CBQ, Inc. (China Business Quotient) (fka CBQI)

[Da !]

I would put it a different way, Bix. SOBUS is the muscle that UltraChina taps if it gets the business. It is an alliance-partner. It is not "behind" UltraChina, not from what I can see. No more so than Compaq is "behind" Networkland.

[Da !]

Yes, Bix, but you're missing the point. IBM used to be the dominant PC provider in China...as recently as 1996. They are losing market share.

[Bixmann]

This is interesting. SOBUS, who's membership includes Shanghai SVA Computer CO. Inc, is an international partner with Open Systems Interface Solutions, a.k.a. OSI Solutions.

Open Systems Interface Solutions.
One World Trade Center, Suite 2281
New York, NY 10048, U.S.A.
Electronic mail : [e-mail] (General Information)

I am trying to determine how difficult/easy it is to do what CBQI is doing. Acting as a venture capitalist, I called OSI and spoke to Kevin Chin. Kevin did not sound too aware of Shanghai's membership status with SOBUS. I told him I wanted to buy computers from China, and he told me it "would be cheaper to buy them in the US because the processors are manufactured here." I advised Kevin of the artical showing the multi-million unit OEM order and he said he would call SOBUS for me and have them call me directly.

So far, I've had no luck buying low-cost high cost computers from China.

Link to OSIS: http://www.osisolve.com/Default.asp