Posted on 08/01/2005 11:21:24 AM PDT by nuconvert
"500 software companies active in Iran"
Monday, August 01, 2005 - ©2005 IranMania.com
LONDON, August 1 (IranMania) - There are 500 software companies in Iran, reported ILNA quoting statistics released by the Secretariat of the High Council of Information Dissemination.
The report indicated that the software market has grown by 41% per annum over the past two years thanks chiefly to state support.
The total value of Iran?s software production and services market reached $400 mln in 2004. The government, said the report, plans to boost software exports.
There are also plans to increase software exports to $100 mln a year by March 2007.
Fereydoon Entezari, who heads Iran Software Exporters Union, told reporters earlier that software exports doubled in the year to March 2005 to reach $10.9 mln.
?This year we have so far received requests for software export worth $15 mln,? he said, adding that Iranian software products are mostly in automation, textile industries and e-commerce areas.
Iran last year exported software products to Germany, Syria and Zimbabwe.
An agreement has been reached with a leading Indian software company on technical and training cooperation.
The ?national computer? will enter the market by September. The Persian computer has been completely designed and manufactured by Iranian engineers. Some 2,000 sets will enter the market in the first phase.
The problem there is the mullah grip on their countryside.. the urban youth are quite willing to westernize.
heh, someone ask Ross Perot about computers in Iran...
Wonder if an Iranian is who I talked to this a.m. when I called Direct TV for some service. Hung up on one person since the accent was so heavy I couldn't understand a one the person said. Called again and got another person with a medium accent that was more understandable.
More likely an Indian?
Farsi keyboard, no doubt. Linux? Ran across a site a while back that looked like it might be a Farsi equivalent to Slashdot. www.farsilinux.org?
Then there's http://www.linuxiran.org/modules/news/
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