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Software Market In Iran – Part 1

Introduction
Iranian software companies favor some technologies and platforms, however they almost didn’t enter to other zones that are popular in other parts of the world. Here you will find a quick overview about favorite technologies that are in use by Iranian software companies and individual experts.

Iranian Software Market, Separated Just Like an Iceland
Following special political situation Iran’s software market has a special characteristic that you cant compare it with other countries in some ways. Following economic sanction and reducing international trades in high-tech area, Iranian software industry has passed its specific growing path among the years. Some technologies are getting more popular and some others remain unknown even for the best companies.

Also regarding to the global motivations of immigration, most of young talented Iranian engineers leave their motherland toward overseas. Some of them come back to Iran after a while to start new businesses. Some others try to outsource software projects to Iranian teams and individuals.

Copyright
Most of Iranian students doesn’t have any respect for Copyright rules likewise the government. So software duplicators have a large black legal market! Some how software brokers catch more than the software producer. I believe this is a side effect of restrictions. Anyway lack of copyright rule let them download anything and use without a cost and without any authorized support.

Lack of legal Services
Lack of legal branches and authorized software resellers, provides a huge market for companies and individual persons who can support prevented technologies that are under economic sanction policies. For example you may find an individual engineer who used to work with IBM mainframes in past years and now he supports some large mainframes alone.
In this area there are many hardware companies that they are importing hardware and high-tech technologies much expensice than their international costs without providing any support to their customers. They sell complex machines just like a chewing gum. “No return, no money back, no support, just take it and go.” In this complex and difficult market some customers prefer to have a low quality Huawei router that is supported by chines engineers rather than an unsupported brilliant Cisco device.

Every Threat is an Opportunity
Software market is not an exception too. In software business lack of legal branches makes a large market. However software industry grows locally to capture market of giants companies such as People Soft, SAP and IBM. Lack of authorized branches gives a great opportunity to some Iranian companies to gaining a lot of money by producing localized business applications. Some local companies now reached such as popularity that knowledge of using their applications is a pretty valuable skill. They runs their rules in general business application development. Iranian people are not familiar with English language as many other countries so they prefer to use localized business applications. As I mentioned Iran software market uses some special platforms and technologies instead of some other. In next part I introduce such technologies that use by Iranian companies widely.

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