Taiwanese PC maker Acer Inc (宏碁) plans to recruit 1,000 people within a year in a bid to expand the scale of its cloud-computing business, Acer founder Stan Shih (施振榮) said yesterday.
The planned workforce is to focus on software and services engineering, market development and partner relationship management, the company said.
“We have cloud-computing technologies, but we need more software developers and sales experts to help Acer introduce valuable cloud-computing solutions to the market,” Shih told a news conference at Acer’s headquarters in New Taipei City’s Sijhih District (汐止).
The company began recruitment last week, Shih said.
Citing growing demand for cloud-computing technologies worldwide, Shih said he has high hopes that the company’s cloud-computing business will generate meaningful revenue of more than NT$10 billion (US$321.85 million) per year.
Shih declined to elaborate on details of how and when the revenue target would be achieved.
The new business would account for 2.93 percent of the company’s total revenue last year.
“As this is new business, do not ask me about sales performance every day. Give us some time to grow the business,” Shih said.
As part of efforts to expand the company’s “Build Your Own Cloud” platform, Acer said it is in talks with National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) to build an intra-building communications network via the service in a bid to improve communication efficiency between paramedics and patients.
NTUH spokesperson Tan Ching-ting (譚慶鼎) said the hospital is interested in Acer’s abPBX plus, which is a communication system that integrates a traditional telephone system with mobile devices.
The system “will improve communication between paramedics and patients, raising the hospital’s quality of medical care, which is important to us,” Tan said.
Patients could make a multi-party call with doctors and nurses via the abPBX plus communication system, shortening the process of seeking doctors through nurses, she said.
Separately, Acer president and chief executive officer Jason Chen (陳俊聖) said the company plans to donate NT$2 million to help people injured in the fire at the Formosa Fun Coast (八仙海岸) water park in New Taipei City’s Bali District (八里) on Saturday last week, as well as offer job opportunities to the people affected.
“We will create as many job openings as possible for those … who were injured. It will be a long path to recovery and Acer wants to offer them support,” Chen said.
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