Boris Kharas: When there is money, they buy foreign software, when the money runs out, they don’t buy any software

15.03.2022       

Chairman of the Union of Software Developers for the Fuel and Energy Complex Boris Kharas commented on the material The Kremlin hopes that support measures will help to avoid the outflow of personnel from the IT sector: "The best motivation for retaining staff is the demand for the company's developments in the market. Laboratory research and development can be done from the comfort of a laboratory in any country. But when your developments are in demand on the market, then you have a completely different level of motivation, it is much more difficult for you to leave the project and the customer.
Unfortunately, we are witnessing a situation that happened in crises of earlier periods. When there is money, they buy foreign software; when the money runs out, they don't buy any software.
The task of the government is to finally motivate the largest industrial companies to purchase domestic software and start its practical mass use. If not now, then when else?
It is the use of domestic software in production that will ensure not only the technological independence of the industry, but will also create conditions for the growth of the IT sector in the country, and as a result, for the retention of IT specialists in the homeland.
So far, there has been no mass transition to the use of domestic software on the part of the largest customers.
We believe that the situation with the implementation of effective demand will be resolved in the near future.<