I normally ignore press releases that trumpet a sale of the vendor's software to some customer or another, prestigious or not. This category of press release always come across to me as announcing, "We made a sale, thank God, we get to stay in business a bit longer."
This morning's press release from Chaos Systems is of that nature, with the dutifully dull headline, "Chaos systems AB acquires order from China."
What stuck me, however, were some of the details of the body of the press release:
-- the Swedish company actually sold software to a Chinese company, 20 copies of TopoCAD.
-- the sale is worth US$110,000.
-- the sale occurred after 18 months of work.
Eighteen months of effort to sell $110,000 worth of software. Remarkable.
Chaos naturally expects further sales in the future. But, knowing the region's propensity for illegal copying, this statement by Chaos' Tomas Sandstroem sounds, um, ominous: "...and there are many operators on the Chinese market that will benefit by our system Topocad."
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