Chinese Office Software Challenges Microsoft's Win98

The (China) Peoples Daily ^ | Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, July 19, 2002 | By PD Online Staff Member Li Heng

[vannrox]

The monopoly of foreign office software over Chinese market will be broken, as domestic software developers have jointed hands to start a project of "Chinese version" office software. The Beijing IT Industry Promotion Center announced on Thursday that two programs named "Yangfan" and "Qihang" (both means to "set sail") were kicked off, aiming at working out an operation system equivalent to Win 98 within a year.

The Center said that 18 companies and universities joined the programs and its first desktop operation system "Yangfan 1.0" had been gradually put into use in offices of government departments.

As reported, in the copyright software purchasing at the end of last year, since Software didn't bid, the Beijing municipal government bought software equivalent to Win 95 from Chinese companies such as CS&S and RedFlag. While the newly started two programs would make updates on this basis to improve the software to a level of Win98 and compatible with Office2000 and Word.

[vannrox]

Hum... China has a number of forward looking projects moving. I wonder if they will come out with an English Version.

[evolved_rage]

Would that be a "Broken English Version"???

[College Repub]

I wonder if they will get mad if Americans pirate their intellectual property :)

[Riley]

Would that be a "Broken English Version"???

The error messages are bad enough as it is- I can't imagine deciphering them in this version!

This reminds me of a page that I saw where a Saudi national posted a nasty note about the US in broken English. The webmaster, as a courtesy of course, flamed him back, in broken English. It was hilarious! I am not going to post a link, because it isn't exactly G rated.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

This is probably just a smoke screen to start using windows without paying for it. They will simply steal it. Even if they sell it, or use it, only in China that is quite a market. This has happened in most industries where companies slobbered all over themselves thinking of getting a large peice of the China market. China encourages them to build plants, etc., and then just says thank you very much, we will take it from here. How well are Loral and Boeing doing in China after showing them how to MIRV their missiles?

[blueriver]

One example:

July 20 2002
Motorola to hire 4,000 engineers and spend $1 billion in R&D in China in new strategy
Semiconductor Business News
June 7, 2002 (12:00 p.m. EST)

BEIJING -- Motorola Inc. here today outlined its new strategy in China, announcing plans to spend an additional $1 billion in R&D and hire 4,000 more engineers in that nation.

Tim Chen, the new president of Motorola's China subsidiary, also announced the company's new, so-called “2+3+3” strategy in that nation. The “2+3+3” strategy is an evolution of Motorola's previous “Four-Point” program in China.

The '2' refers to the company's efforts to make China into a worldwide manufacturing and R&D base. The first '3' refers to three new growth areas that the company will focus on in China, including semiconductors, broadband and digital trunking systems.

The second '3' refers to three $10-billion goals: annual production value to reach $10 billion by 2006, accumulated inputs in China to reach $10 billion by 2006; and local purchasing to reach $10 billion in China within the next five years.

The company will also hire 4,000 more engineers and researchers and add $1 billion in research and development to the existing 18 R&D in China.

[SR71A]

Chinese Office Software Challenges Win98

They seem to be a tad behind the times. Next, we'll see: "Chinese Auto Manufacturers introduce domestic version of Model A".

[pepsi_junkie]

Excellent points. I posted once some stats from the government on exports to China and Taiwan. I did this because there was some event where China was saber rattling over Taiwan and as always Clinton was kissing Chinese ass and selling out Taiwan. Business was elated over it because everyone drools over the chinese market and fools themselves into believing they will someday get into it, even to the point of being willing to break laws to get there. And all the while China thanks them for their information and lets nobody in.

The stats showed that giant China, everyones dream market, imports from the US less than half of what Taiwan imports from the US. Thats right, we keep kissing Chinese butts and selling out Taiwan, our great ally over there, and all the while the Taiwanese market is TWICE the size of the Chinese market in terms of reality, not wishful thinking. Sheesh.