2006: China will be the world's IT focus

China's boom will help the Asia-TBD region achieve IT growth rates far beyond the world average in 2006.

In a report on world IT development trends, technology market research firm Gartner said that the Asia-Pacific region's IT market, including the hardware, software, IT services market and telecommunications, will amount to US $ 210 billion in 2006, achieving an annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.5% ( meanwhile, according to this report, 2006 global IT sales will be US $ 1,768 billion, CAGR reach 4.5% / year ).

In the past few years, if the language is one of the main reasons that hinders the boom of China's IT industry, this problem is expected to be solved in 2008, at the same time as China. The country became the nation with the largest number of English speakers in the world.

This will help Chinese IT enterprises penetrate all sectors, different sectors of the economy, directly compete with India and help the world's most populous country to create delivery ports. Continuing new technology with the world like Beijing and Shanghai parallel to Hong Kong port - which is considered a hub of global IT - Telecommunications industry. Singapore will be the most profitable country when China overcomes the language barrier because the island nation has long established a close partnership with China in the IT sector and business. general trade.

The region's IT development trend in 2006 will target consumer technology, mobile broadband information, and integrated business models. The rapid growth of Chinese and Indian IT not only helps to increase two-way trade turnover, but also helps the two country's IT businesses improve their competitiveness and successfully penetrate into markets. emerging all over the world.

' Once the GDP budget for Research - Development (R&D) of the region increases, we will see more Asian - TBD countries focusing more on the protection of intellectual property rights ' - Dion Wiggins, Vice President Gartner said.

One notable trend mentioned in the report is Open-source software (OSS) which will be widely used in two huge markets in China and India, especially in the group of businesses. medium and small. By 2010, open source software will account for 20% of the world software market and take away over $ 100 billion in revenue of traditional closed-source software vendors.

With rapidly expanding design and technological innovation capabilities, we will witness a strong trend of transformation in Asia, from a place considered a lucrative market for suppliers of IT products. Become the world's leading incubator, design and manufacture of IT products.

Ba Lam