Billions (was: [Talk] All your base are belong to SCO (ITHO) (was: the gloves come off))

[David Purdue]

David and Greg - how do you always reduce each issue to
the absolute silliest thing to fight about?

DavidP

(If $1G is 1 grand, then surely $3B is 3 bucks - which I think
would be a valid settlement offer from IBM. ;-) )

david.newall at auug.org.au wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <Greg.Lehey at auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
>>>That would be $3B; $1G is universally understood as $1,000
>>
>>Not in this part of the universe.
> 
> 
> Rubbish. A G is a Grand is a thousand dollars.  Always was; probably
> always will be.