Software industry challenged by rising human resource costs
HCM CITY — Rising costs for human resources have weakened Viet Nam's chief competitive advantage in the software industry.
In the past, cheap labour was seen as the country's chief competitive advantage in making international-standard software, but that advantage is declining.
The pool of employees for the software industry is still rather small, and language skills, particularly in English and Japanese, for writing software are limited.
Viet Nam, however, still maintains a balance between expenditures and human resource skills, compared to India and China.
"But this balance could collapse if the country doesn't control inflation," Nguyen Hung Cuong, software development director at Harvey [...] Continue Reading...
Vietnam is a top destination for investment beyond BRIC
In 2010, Vietnam has held its place for the third year running at the top of a list of emerging markets, outside of the BRICs, where UK firms should be looking to do business, according to global investors surveyed by UK Trade & Investment and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
In the next five years Asia's economy will grow by 50 per cent, and be comparable in size to the economies of the United States and Europe. By 2030 Asian GDP will exceed that of the G7 (June 2010 IMF report 'Asia Leading the way').
Vietnam is a top destination for investment [...] Continue Reading...
Vietnam Gearing up to be Next Asian IT and Outsourcing Tiger
http://outsourceportfolio.com, the website which is a prominent outsourcing industry organ has come out with a definitive research(http://outsourceportfolio.com/research-articles/) report on Vietnam, spelling out in detail the opportunities available to the nation in the realm of outsourcing with particular emphasis on IT outsourcing. The report addresses the key issues of the factors responsible in driving this growth, the role of the government, and the key operating facts, costs and risks involved.
According to the report Vietnam has had one of the highest rates of growth in the world second only to China?s over the last ten years, and this trend is set [...] Continue Reading...
5 Tips for Offshore Outsourcing
Outsourcing product development (or parts of development) offshore sounds like a good idea at the time. After all, you can augment your dev group quickly and on the cheap. But it only seems to work under certain conditions; mileage does vary depending on the company. Longer-term enterprise development projects tend to be better suited for outsourcing than shorter-term consumer Internet projects for example (I learned this the hard way). It has to do with development cycles, level of skill required for tasks, time to market, and the ability to iterate.
Arguably, you shouldn’t ever completely outsource your product development. Some [...] Continue Reading...
Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision
Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.
There is no simple answer to that question for all cases, but there certainly are some key considerations which will help you select the optimal solution for your case. In fact, the considerations are not unique to software development – they apply almost as well to any product or service [...] Continue Reading...
HP hires 1000 software engineers in Vietnam
HP has been granted a license to operate in Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) with US$10 million investment. The center will undertake the research and testing of HP's software products and global services. In the first two years of operation, HP will need more than 3000 square meters of office space right at QTSC. After 2012, the QTSC will provide to HP 10,000 square meters of office space at the new office building.
The HP's R&D Center plans to increase the number of engineers from 50 to 200 by the end of the year. Every quarter, the center may need [...] Continue Reading...
Nokia opens factory in Vietnam
The world's leading mobile phone maker Nokia plans to open a handset factory in Vietnam next year in order to take advantage of growing markets in Asia.
Nokia said it planned an initial investment of around 200 million euros ($275 million) "with further sizeable investments thereafter". The factory in Vietnam is part of its effort to reach the billions of people who do not own a mobile device or have access to the internet.
Source: Channel News Asia
The ‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0′ provider is not registered on the local machine
Today I got this error "The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine" when running my ASP.NET web based application on my new laptop with Windows 7 64 bit. It was a form that allows user to upload excel file, then I read the data from excel file into data table object. It used to work in my old laptop, but not in my new one 
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I have googled around for this issue, have found solution for it. So I took a note here for people who might face same problem as me.
Steps to fix this problem
Open [...] Continue Reading...