Liang met his future business partner Ji Qi when Ji applied to sell Oracle's software in China.
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.
Responding to reporters' questions, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang acknowledges the controversy over the software in and outside China.
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.
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.
Zinzhen claims more than 100 million users in China for the software, in a wide variety of industries.
So they went on to create enormous advances, efficiencies and value in the internet, software and China to name a few.
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.
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.
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.
With about 1, 000 power plants in China, the potential demand of software that linked equipment, materials and fuel management software was huge.
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.
"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.
Wipro already has set up operations in China, which has one of the world's largest software industries.
She says they have more than 300 software engineers here linking up daily with their offices in the US and elsewhere in 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.
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.
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.
The little-known software, which Maxthon says has some 120 million monthly users, more than half of them in China, aims to capitalize on consumers' desires to access their files from a range of devices.
With the new store, which allows users to download free applications or pay for software, Amazon becomes the first major U.S. company to offer a for-pay Android application store in China.
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