Epicor Software Corp expected China’s IT spending, including the manufacturing sector, to continue to grow next year, despite the impact of the global financial crisis, the world’s sixth-biggest ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor said yesterday.
The growth will mainly come from demand of large state-owned enterprises, western China firms and manufacturers which require IT to [...]
The global financial crisis, which has put pressure on China’s exporters, will also bring opportunities, industry officials said during an electronics fair in Shanghai yesterday.
They said the crisis could lead to increased exports to Europe, as foreign firms cut costs and look for cheaper suppliers.
“It’s a chance for us to upgrade the industry structure,” Chen [...]
An official of Microsoft said on Friday that the company would take a more flexible pricing strategy in China to allow more users to afford genuine software.
Lin Congwu, a marketing manager of Microsoft China, thanked the National Copyright Administration for publicly expressing “understanding and support” for the company’s anti-piracy efforts.
According to him, Microsoft would actively [...]
Intel Corp, the world’s leading chip maker, said it would jointly establish a Moblin support center with the Taiwan government, an open source toolkit and software stack for developers targeting Intel’s Atom processors, said Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel on Thursday.
The center will work on application software which needs to deliver Internet experience on the [...]
Shanghai’s information technology service and outsourcing industry will continue to grow 50 percent annually in the next three years despite the global financial crisis, industry officials said during a local IT forum which ended yesterday.
The tough economic environment will force major companies to outsource more non-core business which will create opportunities for the outsourcing industry, [...]
Microsoft is trying to woo consumers with a one-week discount of nearly 70 percent on its Office product in China, as it tries to win the battle against pirated software dealers.
The world’s largest software maker said it will reduce the retail price of its Office Suite 2007 home and student edition from 699 to 199 [...]
