Zinzhen claims more than 100 million users in China for the software, in a wide variety of industries.
In the U.S., which spends about six times as much on supercomputers as China, the software budget equals about 30% of hardware spending, and computer specialists say even that level isn't sufficient.
In China, the software is being used to help the government as it spends billions of dollars to improve hydropower production, increase forested land to help store and meet out water, and make sure there is enough water for irrigation needs, among other goals.
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
Liang met his future business partner Ji Qi when Ji applied to sell Oracle's software in China.
So they went on to create enormous advances, efficiencies and value in the internet, software and China to name a few.
The battle for software dollars is so intense in China that researchers rarely work as a team on long-term software projects, Chinese scientists say.
Kotick contends Activision is the most successful Western video game software company in China already, via Worlds of Warcraft and Starcraft, both in partnership with NetEase.
But Access' interest might not even have been the Palm OS. By acquiring PalmSource, the company gained Linux development resources for mobile devices in the U.S., France and China, including those from PalmSource's recent acquisition of China MobileSoft, a Linux software firm.
Responding to reporters' questions, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang acknowledges the controversy over the software in and outside China.
With about 1, 000 power plants in China, the potential demand of software that linked equipment, materials and fuel management software was huge.
It faces daunting challenges from China Inc. and the free software movement, and its high-margin boxes may yet fall under the same relentless cost pressure that has long strained most hardware businesses.
Daily was about to depart for China, where the government is using software she developed with others to help with its goal to zone 25% of the land for conservation purposes.
Mr Li, from China's Chengdu province, targeted software from big manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Rockwell Automation before selling them on to 325 buyers, including a Nasa engineer as well as military contractors.
The deal is part of a five-year plan by China to get more people using open source software.
The move is widely seen as an attempt by China to wean its IT sector off Western software in favour of more home-grown alternatives.
" Adds Liu Bo, a former Microsoft business director in China who jumped ship to run a competing software firm, Beijing-based Red Flag Software: "Windows is a good product.
Just to cite one example, Microsoft maintains software development labs in India and China, facilities designed to help transfer technology and benefit the host country as well as the company.
"China is very interested in building its own software industry and open source can be viewed by their operators and adapted without having to do the whole design from scratch, " he points out.
In other news, Apple, the US electronics giant, appeared in court in Shanghai yesterday accused by a local firm of violating intellectual property rights in its software used on Siri, China Daily reports.
Wipro already has set up operations in China, which has one of the world's largest software industries.
The complexity will only increase as more business is automated and shifted onto the Internet and more software production is assigned to India, Russia and China.
Last month, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates visited Shenzhen in southern China to unveil the company's "Venus project, " software and hardware that allows VCD players and other consumer devices to display Chinese Internet content on TVs.
Already software writers feel salary pressure from India, cartoon animators from China, classified ad salesmen from Ebay and so on.
But in China, for every dollar in hardware sales there is only eight cents in software sales.
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One of the reasons for its success in China could be down to its ability to be controlled says vice president of software systems at IDC, Dan Kusnetzky.
Prof Wen Weiping at the School of Software and Microelectronics at Peking University also backs these claims by telling China Daily that "cyber-sabotage" targeting China is growing rapidly.
IBM, meanwhile, is setting up a unit in China with 400 employees to cater purely to the country's appetite for software and services to manage its rail network efficiently.
It is run from Cambridge, but marketing is based in Silicon Valley, much of the software is developed in India and manufacturing is done in Dresden as well as China.
She says they have more than 300 software engineers here linking up daily with their offices in the US and elsewhere in China.
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