Strategy to boost software output

ENTERPRISE Ireland is hoping its new five-year development strategy for the country’s indigenous software industry will drive combined revenue in the sector past the €2.5 billion mark by 2013.

The development agency launched its Best Connected: Software from Ireland blueprint yesterday, saying that the sector’s current profile of around 500 companies with combined sales of €1.4bn could be doubled by 2013.

However, at yesterday morning’s media presentation, the new development plan came in for some criticism — basically for being too similar to Enterprise Ireland’s last industry outlook published back in 2004.