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The IBM globalization strategy is to ensure that all products are designed to meet the needs of the global market, thereby supporting the language, culture, and character encoding needs of our worldwide customers.
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| Strategic objectives |
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Deliver comprehensive and consistent solutions that meet customer requirements |
| Baseline requirements |
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Develop products that can be used in combination with other IBM and non-IBM software and hardware products to create end-to-end solutions that are consistent in language and cultural support |
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Support the cultural requirements of a consistent set of languages and countries; IBM currently supports a minimum of 122 language and region combinations known as locales |
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Implement Unicode support across all product lines to enable multilingual capabilities in e-business applications |
| Translation requirements |
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Provide user interfaces for all products in the ten strategic languages (except in specific cases in which all ten are not required): English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean |
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Simultaneous general availability |
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Deliver products in all ten strategic languages at the same time or within 30 days of availability of the English version |
| Worldwide translation availability |
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Make all language versions of IBM software available in all countries to enhance usability (for example, customers who want a Traditional Chinese version in Canada); since the translations are often delivered in the same package, this enables customers to more easily choose the user interface languages they require |
| Global Architecture Imperative (GAI) |
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Develop software that supports more than one language and one country at a time so that the products can process information and respond correctly to the specific needs of the end-user |
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Provide comprehensive support for Unicode |
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Provide a single executable with interchangeable localization packs |
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Continue to "Global Architecture Imperative (GAI)"
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