June 1994 / State Of The Art

Software Goes Global	It's a brave new world for software development out there today--in fact, it's the whole world, producing and purchasing software - by Russell Kay
Transborder Tips and Traps	Creating or retrofitting software for another country requires attention to myriad technical details involving language, translation, and interface - by L. Chris Miller
Levels of Internationalization	In his book Solaris Internationalization Guide: Global Product Design (Prentice-Hall, 1992), author Bill Tuthill characterizes software according to its level of internationalization on the following scale: Level 1--Software with texts and code sets that are adaptable internationally or are considered "8-bit clean" and that support the Latin-1 code set.
Observing the Conventions	Aconsiderable variety of typographic and local-usage differences have to do with the way people in different parts of the world use and express numbers, dates, quantities, symbols, and punctuation.
Crossing the Cultural Boundary	Designing software for a different culture calls for an awareness of its subtleties and unwritten assumptions. Japan is a case in point. - by Kumiyo Nakakoji
Developing Software Overseas	Around the world, local developers are creating software that's as good as or better than anything being made in the U.S. Here's a look at the way the offshore software industry is growing. - by Edward Yourdon
Quality: The Hidden Offshore Advantage	American programmers are grappling with 20-year-old legacy systems that were estimated at 81 billion lines of COBOL a few years ago.
Growth Stages for Foreign Software Industries	1. Foreign programmers develop software with teams located at the customer's local site.
Software Process Maturity Scale
Software in Russia	Back in 1989, when the Perestroika policies of Mikhail Gorbachev began lifting the iron curtain, several people in the information industry seemed to think that Russia had dilapidated facilities, outdated eq uipment, and technical knowledge and skills that bordered on the Neanderthal. - by Ronald B. Scott

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