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Focuses on the enterprise software business in China. Move of established companies to buy up ailing North American and European software companies; Projections on software and hardware sales for 2004; Government's plans of imposing software encryption for wireless networks and related devices as of June 1, 2004. INSET: FAIR TRADE: E-trading platforms in China take hold.

The article reports on $16-billion in investments and joint ventures that were unveiled by networking equipment vendor Cisco Systems in 2007. It includes an in-depth analysis of various subject matter relevant to the transactions, some which are aimed at start-up companies from China. The issues' implications for information and business technology are also cited.

The article reports on the introduction of the laptops called XOs, developed by the One Laptop Per Child organization and produced in Shanghai, China. Walter Bender, president of software and content at One Laptop Per Child, has said that the development of the said laptops reflects that they can build a low-cost laptop. The laptops features a 500 Mega hertz processor, 128 Mega bytes dynamic random access memory, 500 Mega bytes flash memory and four universal serial bus ports.

Presents news items concerning the information technology industry as of April 26, 2004. Decision of the government of the People's Republic of China to hold off implementing a proprietary wireless LAN encryption standard set for June 1; Speculation on Oracle and Microsoft's collaboration efforts.