Feb 20, 2012 12:25
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English term

we weren’t invited to the party

English to Chinese Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology) cloud computing
At the Goldman Sachs conference, VMware CFO Mark Peek was more diplomatic. Peek said that Citrix and VMware often occupy different spaces in the industry.
Peek was asked about comments from Citrix CFO David Henshall, who speaking at the Goldman conference noted that the company isn’t invited to go toe-to-toe VMware on the virtualization front. When Citrix and VMware both battle for the same customer, Henshall was confident about his company’s chances.
Peek said he could say the same thing about Citrix, which was portrayed as being more about thin clients and desktop virtualization. VMware is in desktop virtualization, but Citrix has a large installed base.
“Citrix has a significant installed base and I think ***there are a lot of deals where we probably don’t know that we weren’t invited to the party because — and it’s also a different buyer***,” said Peek.
最后一句话没理解是啥意思。谢谢指点!
中心思想是说思杰指责劲敌VMware可能会垄断行业。
Proposed translations (Chinese)
3 我们没有受邀竞标

Discussion

jarv95888 Feb 23, 2012:
"...我想或许还有许多交易是我们所不知的,因为我们并未受邀参与,而且是不同买家..."
jarv95888 Feb 20, 2012:
there are a lot of deals where we probably don’t know because (that) we weren’t invited to the party — and it’s also a different buyer
(在这里作者误用了“because that"的语法结构。“because that”里的 that引导的是名词子句,而作者误将它当作引导形容词子句的关系代名词来使用。或许是新出现的用法吧1)

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我们没有受邀竞标

I think there are a lot of deals where we probably don’t know that we weren’t invited to the party because — and it’s also a different buyer.

我认为有许多业务交易我们没有受邀竞标,我们对此可能都毫不知情,因为 —— Citrix 也有做买方的情况。

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Note added at 1 day3 hrs (2012-02-21 15:42:36 GMT)
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Citrix 也有可能是交易中的买方。
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