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What percentage of your technology budget is devoted to home-grown software, including customizations of commercial off-the-shelf software?
Most organizations have home-grown software for these tasks, which is hard to manage and scales poorly as the organization grows.
Perhaps the biggest indicator of the challenges facing phone makers is the recent announcement that Nokia has formed an alliance with Microsoft to use its Windows Phone 7 software in its line of mobile devices, moving away from its own home-grown software.
Red Star OS is the country's "home-grown" software that is installed on computers found mostly in libraries and schools.
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Many ISVs still use home grown software protection solutions, and the return on investment in this area is less than we hoped for.
Home grown software companies like Infosys, which employs more than 9,000, and Wipro, with 7,000, attract software development contracts by charging lower rates almost a third as much per hour than do contractors in the U.S.
One of the biggest changes in the past decade, Halstead tells me, is Presto, Pixar's own home-grown animation software package.
Nokia decided in early 2011 to ditch its home-grown Symbian software for a deal with Microsoft, aiming to catch up with Apple and Google in smartphones.
So it decided to buy mapping data from about 24 suppliers and display it using Apple's home grown software.
It has $700,000 in Angel funding to provide live tracking of football (soccer) games using a combination of manual input and home grown software.
It's unlikely that its own China-specific OS will pose any major threat to the dominance of Android and iOS, especially in the short-term, but if China's government is serious about putting lasting investment in home-grown alternatives that favor Chinese software and services, building significant market share early might not be a necessary component of its survival.
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