Nikkei Electronics Acquires Exclusive Translation Right of IEEE Software in Japan, Aiming to Strengthen Its Software Engineering Content

Tokyo – October 1, 2006 – Nikkei Electronics, an electronics magazine published by Nikkei Business Publications (President & CEO: Seiichi Oteru; Tokyo), has acquired the exclusive translation right of a software engineering magazine IEEE Software in Japan. Articles useful to Japanese engineers will be selected by editors of Nikkei Electronics and run on the magazine in Japanese translation starting in October.

Currently, the term "software engineering" is not necessarily accepted widely in Japan. While the importance of software quality and the massiveness of possible damage caused by trouble have become widely recognized since the bug flurry of cell phones in 2001, little consideration has been given to technical aspects of the issue, such as what to be done specifically to prevent incidents of bugs and ensure quality. What is necessary to turn current software development into "genuine, process-based software making" is not mentality-oriented proposition for higher quality awareness but specific actions to cultivate techniques, skills, and engineers.

Nikkei Electronics has been enthusiastically seeking to introduce the trends of the world in software engineering to Japanese engineers. This translation partnership will greatly help achieve that goal.

"I'm very excited about this translation partnership with the industry's leading magazine IEEE Software," said Mr. Yosuke Mochizuki, editor-in-chief of Nikkei Electronics. "The Japanese electronics industry, which has grown with more emphasis on hardware, is now beginning to turn its eyes also to strengthening of software. By introducing trends of the world in our magazine, we hope for this movement in the industry to be accelerated."

Mr. Warren G. Harrison, editor-in-chief of IEEE Software, made a comment, too. "We at IEEE Software are delighted to have this opportunity to partner with Nikkei Electronics. This relationship is a great advancement in our ongoing efforts to internationalize IEEE Software and reach software developers and engineers around the world. The joint efforts of the IEEE Computer Society and Nikkei Electronics will certainly help to build new communication channels and an ever-larger community of technical colleagues."

About Nikkei Electronics

Nikkei Electronics is a specialized magazine delivering to engineers and designers technological information on electronics, information, communications, and other electronics-related areas. Building upon accumulated researches and detailed data, the magazine offers insightful analyses of technologies. It also presents a clear picture of a key technology in relative position, based on through comparison of the technology with competing technologies. The magazine will continue to keep its eye on trends in parts technologies, evaluation of equipment manufacturers, future prospects of element technologies, legal standpoints of intellectual property rights, and standardization of various standards, to offer in-depth articles useful to technological development.

About IEEE Software

While belonging to an academic organization called IEEE, IEEE Software is a magazine known for its dedication to truly practical information on software engineering. The magazine has had eminent technological leaders as editor-in-chief successively, including Mr. Alan Davis, an authority on requirements engineering and the author of "201 Principles of Software Development", and Mr. Steve McConnell, a former Microsoft consultant known for his works such as "Rapid Development~"@and hProfessional Software Development". The magazine also has in the editorial board Mr. Grady Booch – one of the "three amigos" who invented UML.

In addition, in order to reflect industry's intensions in the editorial content, IEEE Software has set up an organization called "Industry Advisory Board (IAB)", which actually leads in deciding concepts of features. Among the IAB members is Mr. Stephen Mellor, originator of the object-oriented analysis and an advocate of "executable UML". With Mr. Tomoo Matsubara and Mr. Kaoru Hayashi also joining IAB from Japan, IEEE Software is truly a magazine produced by world-class all-star players in the field of software engineering.

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