Vietnamese sofware company wins contract from U.S company


Ho Chi Minh City, June 4 (VNA) -- Vietnamese software company TMA Solutions has won an outsourcing contract from U.S. technology company Critical Path.

The TMA will be working on Critical Path's communication platform software that is sold to Internet Service Providers, telecos, wireless carriers and postal authorities in the U.S. and Europe.

It will also add new services to Critical Path's existing calendar server and extend the server so that services can be accessed from a mobile device using wireless applications protocol (WAP). In addition, the server will be ported from Solaris to Windows 2000 server.

In a competition for this six-month contract, the TMA beat two companies from India, the world's largest outsourcing centre to date.

According to TMA Administrative and Personnel Manager Pham Ngoc Nhu Duong, the first batch undertaken under the contract has been appreciated.

The TMA had earlier won contracts from Nortel Networks of the U.S. and NTT of Japan.--Enditem