Inprise Boosts R&D Presence in Singapore

Inprise Corp. plans to expand its research and development center in Singapore, making it the company's largest facility outside the U.S., the company announced last Tuesday.

Officials revealed the company plans to invest close to US$10 million over the next 12 months to augment its current R&D engineers from 40 to 100 by year-end. The local lab will support core product development and basic research for Internet technologies.

Inprise's enterprise range of products such as VisiBroker, Application Server, and AppCenter are currently being developed in Singapore, said Dale Fuller, Inprise's president and chief executive officer. The company has four other R&D facilities located in the U.S., Australia and Japan.

Inprise expects that the investment will significantly boost the revenue growth out of this region. Currently, revenue from the Singapore-based facility makes up nearly 40 percent of Inprise's total revenue worldwide.

Fuller believes that the Internet revolution here will be greater than the growth experienced in the U.S.

The U.S. saw explosive growth in the Internet, but the ability to communicate really fast, high-speed, through applications, business-to-business, is really going to be a big boon in Asia, more so than in the U.S., which was consumer-related in the Internet, he said.

Already, the company has landed several lucrative contracts with three homegrown companies to develop a raft of solutions to enhance their e-business initiatives in the business-to-business space. The companies include MobileOne, Stratech Limited and iSoftel, said Leong Weng Loong, sales and marketing director at Inprise, Singapore.

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