Small, Medium Firms in Vietnam to Buy 450,000 PCs in 2006

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam are estimated to spend $263.3 million to buy some 450,000 personal computers (PCs) this year, according to a survey by New York-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc.

 

At present, only 11 per cent out of 730,000 SMEs in the Southeast Asian nation are using PCs, it said. Enterprises consisting of one to 99 employees are ranked as SMEs. Vietnamese SMEs prefer desktops to notebooks due to cost factors, an AMI official said. "At least 18 per cent of new PCs are to replace old hardware," she added.