Netcafe or Internet cafe development to be guided

[photopress:Internet_cafe.jpg,full,alignright]New words sneak up on you unawares. Internet cafe has entered the language. And, so, by extension, has net cafe which is just a shortened version.

Now we learn the Culture Market Development Center of China's Ministry of Culture and the Jilin Provincial Netcafe Association have formed a strategic alliance with eight technology suppliers. So the two words have joined together and Netcafe is a new word which will make the people behind the instant coffee Nescafe less than totally delighted.

Those suppliers who want to regulate netcafes are Ruijie Networks, AMD, Vimicro, HP, Founder, Tsinghua Tongfang, TCL and Shanda. These companies will help guide the harmonious development of China's burgeoning netcafe industry and help the industry to advance to a higher level.

That might be viewed with some suspicion. Most net cafes are pretty relaxed, fairly unstructured. Yes, Ruijie Networks is a chain but solo operators are the rule rather than the exception. Ruijie Networks launched the first types of dedicated netcafe routers in China and its overall advanced netcafe network solution called the 'Red Giant'. But that does not mean it runs net cafes or even netcafes.

Zhu Yiping, deputy general manager of Ruijie Networks, said that China's netcafe industry is an industry full of hope, but it can't operate normally without a proper network of businesses and professionals guiding it.

Perhaps, possibly, maybe. But why would AMD be in there and not Intel? Why HP and not Lenovo? What, indeed, gives these companies the right to say that a system which is working full blast at the moment can't operate 'normally' — whatever that might mean in this instance — without a 'proper network' of businesses all of whom would appear to a casual outsider to have a commercial axe to grind.
Source: Jongo News