With the recent vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to grant China normal trading status as a prelude to China s expected admission to the World Trade Organization, the Asia Pacific region is in the global spotlight with good reason. The survey is IDC s Asia Pacific Technology Integration Panel Study, 2000. Chinese firms seem more focused on getting things implemented than on marketing and making their Web sites look good. The segments most keen on esolutions are the large manufacturing and the distribution sectors.
Incremental solutions appear to appeal to the Chinese market.
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