Many have heard of my stories of various companies testing the USA market in Australia. The following URL takes you to an article about IBM that tales about Fujitsu's assault on the US market by testing the Aussie market.

http://books.google.com/books?id=1zU0SfCbfR4C&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=why+does+Fujitsu+test+the+USA+market+in+Australia&source=web&ots=K01iHh1Qmn&sig=U7OW-Wzkv3pX25xSUBaYSqp-BbQ#PPA115,M1