Archive for December, 2007

Protecting your IP or your source code when offshoring

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I have touched on this subject many times and recently read about Microsoft’s recently released, Windows Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLPS), for example SLP Code Protector, which protects against having your code disassembled or decompiled. It seems like this step could make some persons who are concerned about offshoring certain parts of their source code feel more confident that not all of it would be exposed to an offshore group. So I am going to think about this more, how it could become part of a strategy to protect IP when offshoring software development.

In the meantime I would love to hear what others think?

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Acquisition of Outsourcing Firm Telesens in Ukraine

Monday, December 31st, 2007

In early December, Israeli firm, TTI Team Telecom International LTD., which specializes in providing Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers announced that they would acquire Telesens LLC., a software house headquartered in Kharkiv, Ukraine.  Telesens was started in 1998, began its existance providing telecommunications online billing and payment software, it has since branched out to serving a number of Ukrainian as well as European telecommunications companies.

Currently Telesens has approximately 200 employees with an annual turnover of $2 million. The purchase price was announced at a little over 1x at $2.7 million and is subject to downward adjustments depending on 2007 annual revenue.

Original article: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/primenewswire/132772.htm

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Ukraines software development Market continuing to Grow!

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

From a recent posting in the Kyiv Post:

According to estimations by the International Data Corporation (IDC), a global provider of market intelligence and advisory services for information, telecommunications and consumer technology markets, the market of IT-services in Ukraine grew 21.5 percent in 2006 year-on-year, earning $192.2 million.

A more recent study by IDC predicted that Ukraine’s software market volume is expected to grow 17.4 percent annually, with overall IT spending reaching $2.8 billion by 2011.

Which should not be hard for Ukraine to achieve!

http://www.kyivpost.com/business/industglance/27921/

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