The Puzzle of Japanese Software.
In this article, the author presents solutions to the problems associated with the computer software developed by the Japanese companies. Japanese do make many software products, but they are generally written with Japanese interfaces, many are for mainframe computers, and they are often heavily tai...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 25 - 28 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2005
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