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Will Indians ever go for genuine software products??

Created by : Kiran Kumar Reddy, Business Analyst, SAP  | 11 20 2010 08:03:13 +0000
Industry : IT ProductsFunctional Area : Business Models(Strategy & Execution)
Keywords : microsoft intel software products mercury genuine software pirated software products antivirus software
Activity:  251 views;  last activity : 11 27 2010 03:46:13 +0000

I might be wrong in telling like, will Indians ever go for genuine software?? but more of than it should be will majority of Indians go for genuine software products, as we see still see majority of people going for Pirated softwares most of the time as it costs less and functions in a similar way to that of original.

Also a recent Microsoft survey revealed that most Indians are concerned about software piracy and are willing to pay more for genuine software. Close to 2,000 Indians took part in the global privacy awareness survey of 38,000 respondents from 20 countries. The Microsoft survey demonstrates that Indians are more willing to buy original Windows and Microsoft Office products than their pirated versions.

So, what do you think guys, will we ever go for genuine software produts??

  
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For my company YES. A corporate house has no business with pirated software. The trend here is to go towards open source software that is technically free if downloaded but comes with a tag if bought from vendors. this buying will also give you support. for this our mindsets have to change. today, a lot of us jokers still say MSOFFICE when there are as good or "better" suites available
By V. Srinivas, Freelancer, Information Technology  | 11 27 2010 03:46:13 +0000
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See, on home pc's 90% of the softwares are pirated while in organizations . . . there is no word called "PIRATED". Even, big organizations never think about User Machines they always target BIG org for licenses. Moreover, if torrents are banned, piracy rate will go down.
By Vignesh Nadar, Remedy Administrator, BMC Software  | 11 26 2010 15:19:36 +0000
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I dont think its going be to be possible until we get pirated one so easily .
By Anand Sharma, Monitoring the research funded by DIT, Department of Information Technology  | 11 24 2010 09:45:19 +0000
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There is nothing wrong with Indians. This is the market voting with their wallets. If Indians can drive down mobile phone handsets' prices and call rates, then why can we expect same for software? Why should software be priced at U. S. rates in India? Latest analysis in a national daily newspaper indicates that even the DTH market is facing similar issues. ARPU - average revenue per user - is THE LOWEST in INDIA.
By Neeraj , RF Installation Engineer, Globe Wireless LLC  | 11 22 2010 13:15:36 +0000
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New versions of software push hardware sales. The curiosity drive in forcing the customers to upgrade to new versions would only lead to piracy only. On the contrary, the genuine buyers who face abrupt exceptions that occur while they were in the midst of very serious documents or mails forcing them to re-do everything from scratch once again should be allowed to claim the compensation from the companies concerned. You have strong SLAs for technical outages - commitment of 99% uptime commitment - failures force the customers to deduct the carrier fees depending upon the technical outages, whereas such things are missing in the software sellers. If we want PC percolation and penetration, the hardware vendors should bundle licensed softwares free of cost or factoring the cost with the hardware. Then every citizen of this country would be forced to go for genuine software products - with a rider - the hardware sale will certainly go down!
By S. Muralidharan, Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner  | 11 21 2010 12:31:31 +0000
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Everyone will go for genuine software, unless it is affordable. How many people know that IBM provides free office software Lotus Symphony which has features comparable to MS office. Its going to be very difficult to sell software to Indians at Western price! Also need to create awareness on various open source alternatives, which outperforms proprietary software. Take case of ERP like SAP and Oracle Financials, how many know about opentaps, adempiere, apache ofbiz ERP for enterprises, which can effectively fulfill need of any enterprise with customization.
By Abhijit Anand Prabhudan, Admin/Facilities Manager, Ca*****  | 11 20 2010 14:33:41 +0000
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its possible, once we are aware of open source alternatives. most of the open source counterparts are free of cost.
By Basil Cheriyamadathil, IT Specialist ( System Testing ), Genting Malaysia Berhad  | 11 20 2010 09:09:09 +0000
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Money Matter Kiran....... Because if you get any thing free of Cost.So what the use of paying money for that stuff.....
By MD ASIF ALAM, Sap PP Functional Consultant, IT  | 11 26 2010 18:41:44 +0000
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thanks Disha for referal.i feel money also plays very pivotal role in this issue.
By jairaj shyam prasad, Production Manager, BOSCH Ltd  | 11 26 2010 14:19:03 +0000
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Indian software industry is such that buying genuine s/w is too hard. Instead one could just make all s/w free.... and charge only for network or provide sequential downloads of other company s/w in addition to the actual s/w download...
By shrikant sarma k, QA Tester, Electronic Arts  | 11 21 2010 13:09:17 +0000
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When u consider Indian Scenario - we think the product worth the cost. we can see the cost of softwares MICROSOFT WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE DVD 32 BIT Rs11,100,ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5 12 DVD Rs 39000. This much cost we can afford. These are all thousands only people cant buy. But if u see companies are buying and professionals also. Majority will use pirated only
By Syam Sundar. Bheemireddy, M.E/M.Tech/MS student, Vellore Institute Of Technology (VIT), Vellore  | 11 21 2010 02:10:47 +0000
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cost factor matters most for indians. take hindi audio for instance. 7-10 songs opied on a 15/- CD and included in a package that cost arround 20 more for instance and the final product costs us 175rs. when some one opts to buy an original audio cd of hindi songs, we have to shell out 175 bucks for 50rupee product. thats the sole reason for piracy in audio terms. and the same goes for the other software also.
By phanindra , B.Tech/B.E. student, College Of Engineering , Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam  | 11 20 2010 11:01:11 +0000
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Even if you say piracy is a bad thing, but cost factor matters at the end of the day, with never ending PC sales  you cant expect each one of them to buy original software products. The drive against piracy needs to be strong enough, no point in asking 2000 people who are aware of genuine products, but in the small bylanes of India, people don't care whether the software is genuine or not, but for them what matters the most is whether the PC is running or not...So I don't see people going for genuine software products...
By Kiran Kumar Reddy, Business Analyst, SAP  | 11 20 2010 08:04:10 +0000
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