Software Industry in Srilanka

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Software Industry and Open Source in Srilanka

(Sunday Observer) claiming that Sri Lanka software industry has obtained US$74 million of income exporting software.To compare this value with other export commodities calculation was done. Export values for other commodities from 1994 to 2005 by central bank report was obtained . Then by using Trend forecasting analysis, a mathematical model, derived values for 2012 and compared it with software industry value. Rs 107 as US$ / Rupee conversion rate was applied.

Four years ago, Mobile One (M1) was introduced to hSenid software International by Lucent Technologies, who at the time was M1's vendor for its prepaid technologies. hSenid successfully completed a couple of other projects for MI prior to RewardPlus.

In February, hSenid, developed an application for MI. The Loyalty system for MI prepaid customer was developed using the open source database MySQL in combination with Red Hat Enterprises Linux operating system, an approach that has resulted in significant cost savings for MI according to hSenid.

Sri Lanka, Related Services

Consultancy
System integration
Software systems design (for business, communication, development tools, utilities)
Programming
Software maintenance and support, services including remote support
Conversions
Body shopping (of programmers, systems analysts/engineers, for micro, mini and main frame computers)
Software documentation (i.e., operations/user manual preparation)
Data entry services
Training


Popular Programming Languages in Srilanka

Microsoft Visual C++/CLI
Visual C#
Visual Basic.NET
JAVA


Open Source and Srilankan Software Industry

Considering Open Source there are number of organizations associated with that topic

www.opensource.lk/
www.cyberciti.biz
www.itabspl.com

References
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