Retrospect of Taiwan’s software industry and issues of software maintenance and evolution

Author

Chu, William Cheng-Chung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Tunghai Univ., Taichung

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 28 2008-Oct. 4 2008

Firstpage

480

Lastpage

481

Abstract

Due to high demands of software applications world wide, software industry has drawn a great attention from information communication technologies (ICT) industry for the past decade. Taiwan has been known as one of the major hardware procurement center for global ICT companies, mainly on the basis of ODM or OEM. More than 10 products are ranked No. 1 in the world wide ICT market share. However, the development of software industry has performed not as well as hardware industry. Based on the solid foundation and great achievements of hardware manufactures, Taiwan has designed some strategies and programs to enhance and promote its software industry development in last 10 years. This position paper will describe some of our observation and suggestions to Taiwan software industry. Some projects and issues related to software maintenance and evolution in Taiwan will be discussed too.

Keywords

DP industry; software maintenance; Taiwan software industry; global ICT companies; hardware manufactures; hardware procurement center; information communication technology industry; software evolution; software maintenance; Application software; Communication industry; Communications technology; Computer industry; Hardware; Manufacturing industries; Procurement; Software maintenance; Software performance; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2008. ICSM 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2613-3

Electronic_ISBN

1063-6773

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2008.4658114

Filename

4658114