During a January visit to Washington, President Hu Jintao promised to end software piracy by government agencies and procurement policies that discriminate against foreign companies.
His real job is operating his company, PK Interactive, which, he said, "builds back-end software solutions for Web sites".
Unknown to him, another Wipro refugee, Subroto Bagchi, had also been promoting the idea of a high-end software consultancy.
It's not about being a high-end software engineer; I'm not a great technical coder.
Its activities spanned both the consumer and business market, selling everything from high-end software to flat-panel television screens.
In its efforts to integrate the everyday Web with the MSN 8 front-end software, Microsoft scored some hits and some misses.
Server products are the back-end software in corporate data centers, used to run e-mail systems, databases and corporate applications.
One window on his computer is open to Cascade's back-end software, which tracks all the bets and the gamblers who make them.
There is, he said, the possibility that it might consider buying BlackBerry "if it also decides end-to-end software and hardware is the way to go".
There turned out to be very little money in selling "front-end" software such as browsers to consumers; but there were fortunes to be made at the "back-end" selling services, software, storage and hardware to companies.
InBloom doesn't actually provide any of the user-end software — the student assessment dashboard, the reading analytics app, the parent portal — shown in the video.
