- India moves steadily toward becoming exporter of legal
software.
India is becoming a serious contender in the world market for legally produced software, somewhat of a switch for a country where software piracy has long been the rule, and not the exception. In 1992, India's software exports jumped 67 percent to $144 million. The New Delhi-based National Association of ......
- 12% global packaged software revenue growth
respectable; lags 1995 increase of 15.4%.
Numerous Factors Cited For Decline As Market Reaches The $105 Billion Mark Led by applications revenues from office suite, consumer, sales force automation, and customer service/help desk segments, the total worldwide packaged software market grew only 11.9 percent in 1996, compared to 15.4 percent in the preceding year. Numerous factors ......
- Microsoft Windows is clear sales leader in Western
Europe, SPA says.
Sales of North American software firms increased 19 percent to $373 million in Western Europe during the second quarter of 1992, the Software Publishers Association says. "Windows applications have come to dominate US companies' sales in Europe," says Gerard Gabella, SPA Europe's Managing Director. "Two years ago, Windows applications accounted ......
- Export controls continue to hamper US software
industry exports.
US software companies and their customers cannot afford to wait any longer for relief from outdated government controls which prohibit software exports with strong security features, Michael Zisman, CEO of Lotus Development, told a congressional subcommittee last week. "Without strong encryption, businesses and individuals will not entrust their valuable proprietary ......
- Business Software Alliance calls Clinton plan for
encryption 'misunderstanding' of market.
Plan `Fails To Provide Immediate Relief To Software Companies' Less than one month after the White House unveiled a new policy on software encryption exports, an industry group is deriding the plan as a misguided scheme that will prevent key escrow encryption from being commercially developed. The new policy prohibits ......
- EDA firms unworried about software piracy
Software bootlegging is a big problem for software firms, but EDA vendors are less worried than their peers in other segments of the software industry. The market for pirated software in the United States alone causes an estimated loss of more than $4 billion a year in retail sales, according ......
- Small wonders
In these days of enterprise software market consolidation, why would a manufacturer buy from a small company that may not be around for long when larger software companies beckon? The short answer is that emerging vendors continue to develop unique capabilities that meet a vertical-industry need, or target shop-floor functions ......