当今世界正从传统经济向“知识经济”过渡,作为知识产品的软件,在国民经济中的地位日益提高。据专家预测,2000年软件和信息服务业的市场规模将超过5000亿美元,成为世界市场的第一大领域。在我国,软件产业已成为实现经济增长方式转变的一个重要突破口,是科技与经济的特殊结合点和众多高技术产业发展的推动力,在国民经济的发展中起到了“加速器”的作用。随着社会信息化、网络化的发展,在我国建网络、建系统、实现国际联网已成为热点。信息服务业在发展数据库、网络、CAD、CAM、电子表格及其它应用软件平台方面仍将具有极大的市场潜力;系统集成将成为重要的软件产业层次,应用软件市场进一步扩大,多媒体技术将有更快的发展,字处理软件、办公自动化软件、财务软件、MIS软件、图像处理软 The world today is moving from a traditional economy to a “knowledge-based economy”. As a software product of knowledge products, it has become increasingly prominent in the national economy. According to experts, the software and information service market in 2000 will exceed 500 billion U.S. dollars and become the largest market in the world. In China, the software industry has become an important breakthrough in realizing the transformation of the mode of economic growth. It is the special combination point of science and technology and the driving force for the development of many high-tech industries. It has played an “accelerator” role in the development of the national economy. With the development of social informatization and networking, it has become a hot spot to build a network and build a system in our country to realize international networking. Information service industry will still have tremendous market potential in the development of database, network, CAD, CAM, spreadsheet and other application software platforms. System integration will become an important software industry level. The application software market will further expand and multimedia technology will have Faster development, word processing software, office automation software, financial software, MIS software, image processing software