Globalization Insider

In this issue…

Communication Breakdown • Andrew Joscelyne, LISA Newsletter Editor
Director’s letter (premium) • Michael Anobile
Money Talks (premium) • John Freivalds, JFA International
Going Global Means Bringing the Web into your Business (premium) • John Symon, AIIM International Europe
LISA Profiles: Denise Spacinsky • Denise Spacinsky
Why Don’t We All Make Big Money? (premium) • Jochen Hummel, TRADOS Corporation
Why Don’t We All Make Big Money? Table 1 (premium) • Jochen Hummel, TRADOS Corporation
Logos: Blue-Printing the Multilingual Future (premium)
The Virtues of Single-Source Localizing with J.D.Edwards’ Enterprise Content Manager (premium) • Interview with Ben Martin, J.D.Edwards
New OSCAR Initiatives • Alan K. Melby & Jorden Woods, OSCAR
CJKV Information Processing: A review (premium) • Arle Lommel, LISA & Translation Research Group
Wordfast: The Birth of a New Translation Memory (premium) • Interview with Yves Champollion, Wordfast Ltd.

Money Talks

John Freivalds, JFA International

Many observers of the localization industry have noted that not much has happened in the capitalization area of late, but that plenty in the decapitalization of the industry.

Lernout & Hauspie (LHSQ) and Alpnet (AILP) were delisted from trading. Lionbridge (LIOX) is in danger of being delisted, while Berlitz International (BTZ), immediate parent of Berlitz GlobalNet, delisted itself as it receded further into Bennesse Holdings International, a Japanese printing and publishing conglomerate. In Europe, SDL International (SDL.L) and Systran (SYTN.N) continue to trade, but in a down market. In-house localization firms such as Lucent Global Translations, part of Lucent Technologies, are being savaged in a cost cutting mode, with hopes that by outsourcing the work of a unit that has sales of approximately US $20 million, it will bring additional cost savings.

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