I've never been to U.S , I don't want to move to U.S but I can't ignore the fact that U.S leads the world.
Most of the major technologies and big corporations are in the U.S (MS, Novell, IBM, Dell, Google etc...)
but WHY ???
what preventing other countries to lead the way in this area ?
is it money ? many other countries (Scandinavian, Japan...) have money.
is it great minds ? Israel have LOTS of great minds too (but we known as developers of medicine and weapons mostly).

so what is it ?
why isn't there a major corporations like MS outside U.S ?