| As an outcome of the EU integration for Easter | | | | be learned easily and effectively. Young Romanian |
| European countries, like Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary | | | | students usually know at least two different foreign |
| and Poland, a lot of the large companies in Western | | | | languages, such as English and French. German, |
| Europe as well as United States and Canada, are | | | | Spanish and other European major languages are also |
| focusing their attention on this part of Europe to | | | | common among Romanian schools and universities, so |
| search for reliable and cheaper programming and web | | | | a lot of foreign companies have established their call |
| designing services. | | | | centers here. |
| Among these countries, a lot of the market share is | | | | IT trading has become an important part of Romanian |
| hold up by Romania, a country with a somewhat rough | | | | economy, which currently involves around 20,000 |
| history. After the communist period, the industry has | | | | people. Three years ago, the outsourcing of IT |
| boomed in various domains, including the information | | | | services reached nearly $300 million, according to an |
| technology section, where a lot of talented young | | | | estimation made by th Romanian Association for |
| people have put a lot of effort into. This created an | | | | Electronic and Software Industries. The outsourcing |
| elaborated competition for former Asian outsourcing | | | | flow is mainly centered on R&D outsourcing, |
| destinations, and now the situation is fairly inclined in | | | | security and embedded software development, and |
| favor of Romanian IT companies. | | | | mechanical engineering. The famous anti-virus tool |
| With an evolving software development outsourcing | | | | called BitDefender is actually created by a Romanian |
| industry, Romania is famous for a high level of | | | | company called SoftWin. In 2003, Microsoft acquired |
| education and proficient labor skills. They are especially | | | | intellectual property rights over the RAV Antivurs from |
| good at language skills, due to their latin-based | | | | GeCad, showing an increased interest of Western |
| language, which allows for a wide range of accents to | | | | companies in local Romanian IT businesses. |