Vietnam's Top-ten Events of Software Industry 2008 Announced
The Vietnam Software Association (Vinasa) and the Rhythm of Digital Life Magazine on Monday announced the ten outstanding events of the country’s software industry last year, the Tien Phong (Pioneer) newspaper reported.
1. Vietnam entered the top 30 of destinations in the world for software outsourcing and HCM City ranked fourth among the 50-most attractive cities for software outsourcing.
2. The Institute for Software Industry and Digital Information Content of Vietnam was established.
3. Cooperation to produce software with North Europe and Europe started.
4. The construction of the largest software park in Southeast Asia in Thu Thiem, HCM City began.
5. The government announced the goal of training 1 million IT engineers.
6. The Harvey Nash Vietnam company won an international contract worth EUR54 million with Alcatel-Lucent (Germany).
7. The first issue of the Rhythm of Digital Life Magazine was published.
8. The Sao Khue 2008 Awards didn’t have a five-star ranking for software.
9. The software copyright infringement rate in Vietnam decreased to 85 per cent.
10. Vietnam was elected Vice Chairman of the Asia-Oceania Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO).
The local IT industry earned revenue of US$4.5 billion in 2008, up by 20 per cent over 2007. Of the figure, hardware sector gained US$700 million, up 16 per cent on year and software sector fetched US$670 million, up 35 per cent.
Vietnam’s software industry has set a target to earn US$1 billion revenues by 2010. (Pioneer)
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