Vietnam SMEs to Spend US$263.3Mln on PCs in 2006
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam are spending US$263.3 million on 450,000 personal computers (PCs) in the next 12 months, according to a survey by the New York-based Access Markets International Partners (AMI Partners).
AMI Partners said only 11 per cent of 730,000 SMEs are now using computers.
Meanwhile, over 40 per cent of them have never used PCs and wanted to buy PCs in 2006, AMI Partners said.
The survey, entitled Vietnam Small Business Market Overview and Comprehensive Market Opportunity Assessment in 2005-06, also revealed that Vietnamese SMEs are in the first wave of the IT adoption, and are still building their basic IT infrastructure.
According to AMI-Partners, SMEs around the world adopt IT in 3 stages, namely building infrastructure solutions, deploying connectivity solutions and moving on to adopt advanced IT solutions for extending their business reach with customers and business partners.
The IT infrastructure construction of SMEs is based on the adoption of PCs, printers and productivity suites.
Ms Diana Ng, an expert from the Singapore office of AMI Partners, said Vietnamese SMEs prefer desktops to laptops because of the cost factor.
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