Software Business in the Middle East

Recently, on one of the medical conferences they presented interesting statistics on how many doctors are working in different healthcare organization in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi:

1. Only 1 doctor is working in 41% of organizations;
2. 2 doctors in 26%;
3. 3 to 5 doctors in 21%;
4. 6 to 10 doctors in 9%;
5. More than 10 doctors in 3%.

Those 3% of hospitals and clinics, where more than 10 doctors work, bring the majority of profit to IT companies. Hope that people’s mentality will change in a few years and they start understanding that proper software tools might be beneficial not only for large hospitals, but for small pharmacies too.

Some time back I got a trouble understanding why year 2000 is shown as Y2K. It’s good to have friends who refreshed my mind sending a link that describes some of the prefixes.

To continue the discussion about software piracy.

International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) published the report stating that Saudi Arabia has the highest level of piracy in the Middle East. The full article is available here.