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Future Developments
It is difficult to predict how the industry will develop in the next few
years, especially because localisation is more fragmented than ever and
everybody seems to be questioning what the localisation industry actually
encompasses. Where localisation firms once distinguished themselves from
traditional translation companies by specialising in translation, engineering
and testing of software applications, now most of them are migrating to
web localisation solutions.
Since the web is obviously not limited to software publishers only,
many localisation firms find themselves again translating large volume
web-based product and marketing information which might have nothing to
do with software applications, just like the good old days of translation.
In other words, the localisation industry will most likely slowly
integrate back into the translation industry. And when large localisation
firms such as Lionbridge and ALPNET keep moving upstream in the
publishing process and offering content creation and product support
solutions, today's localisation industry will soon be called the "multilingual
solutions industry".
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