Welcome to our Hung Vuong Computer Home Page, the front door to our home on the Internet. Please step in and have a look around.

Hung Vuong Vi Tinh (English Translation Hung Vuong Computer or HVVT), was established in HCMC, Vietnam in 1990. Over the past 10 years, the size and scope of our company has increased and changed every year. With the advent of Internet Services in Vietnam, we are again changing the scope of operations of HVVT to exploit new solutions to our customer problems.

Hung Vuong Vi Tinh has become a major supplier to the many foreign companies, Representative offices, Joint Ventures and private Domestic Companies in Vietnam.

In the early days, HVVT was one of the few companies to provide support for such companies as Microsoft, Novell, Symantec and some others. Some of the very few licensed product sold in the country came from HVVT.

Subsequently, HVVT became one of the FIRST dealers for Compaq Computers in Vietnam. (There are now many such dealers, but there is only one first). We have also become a dealer of many additional name brand products including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Symantec, ACCPAC, Oracle and numerous other "name" brands in the Computer Industry.

With affiliates in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and USA, we can bring together strengths to provide that "extra" support when it is needed.

We have developed a well-trained, well qualified service staff. We have developed a strong team of Software and Networking Specialists. We have developed skills in providing Cabling solutions from Krone, Lucent and AMP. We have developed a strong programming team, small and talented. We have some Microsoft and Novell Certified Staff, and it is a requirement that all of our technical staff pass Microsoft Certification (or equivalent).

Our programming group, by design, is small. We have a core group of Analyst/Programmers, and a larger group of contract staff. We have implemented a range of small to medium sized applications at quite low cost for a range of Multi-National Customers. Some tasks are trivial - such as creating a program to modify standard Hotel Billing system to meet very specific requirements of the Vietnam Tax Reporting code. Other tasks are more difficult involving complex sales analysis from distributed computing facilities located across the country on about 10 locations, and a couple scattered into Cambodia.

In recent times we have been battling the "paper work explosion" which has reached interesting proportions in Vietnam. Our project is to get a filing system that works. To this end we have embarked on an extensive scanning process to capture all paper work (which was not computer generated), and try to organize it so it can be found. This project relies heavily on the use of MS Exchange. And it is working! We expect to be able to utilize web based technologies and SQL Server to provide an extremely powerful document search facility to let us find any document anytime, anywhere. Hopefully this will be operational in early 1999 and all previous 8 years of operations scanned before the Y2K. This application is honing our skills in many areas including MS Access, Visual Studio, Site Server, SQL and Java.

We also develop Home Pages for our customers. This is a recent development (since early 1997) and to this date we have produced a number of sites for customers. Most of these are for internal use (due to the lack of Internet access until December 1997). Currently we are developing sites for several customers ranging from small sites (5-15 pages) to large sites where we measure in 100's of MegaBytes, not pages.

The development tools in use are Front Page 98 and Visual Studio and Site Server. However, we have not limited ourselves to just these tools and our staff are constantly searching out new technology and ideas.

This web page is a cut down version of what we had developed for the Vietnam Intranet when we were promoting the VIETNET system in co-operation with TELTIC in Nha Trang, Vietnam. At it's peak, that web page was near 400Mb in size. Times change and we have changed the design and focus of our web page to reflect current needs.

Our staffing levels put us in the medium size class of business. We currently number near 40 staff (yes we did count the janitors and security and most important the cook!). This is the full time staff. We also have a number of contract staff which can be as few as 1 or as many as 50 depending on our needs.

Hung Vuong Vi Tinh is a Vietnamese company, staffed by qualified Vietnamese Technologists. The predominance of the staff has strong English speaking ability. Virtually everyone is attending some kind of additional training classes. There are a number of Technical advisers from USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK. These advisers all work for other companies in their respective countries, and have all visited Vietnam at one time or another. Those visits have lit a spark to help make HVVT a leader in the Information Technology Industry in Vietnam.... (And beyond…?).

The dream died on 25 November 1999 when the Director of Hung Vuong Vi Tinh decided that enough was enough with the unwarranted investigation by the HCMC Market Management who appear to have been given express orders to shut down HVVT at any cost. A 2 months investigation, followed by a 3 months silence followed by a hollow decision, fundamentally wrong, but failing to officially close the company. With no decision to close the company, but holding the very important company seal, effectively destroyed HVVT. Employees remain unpaid, and despite entreaties to release frozen accounts to allow payment, officials remain adamant to implement a faulty decision. An appeal has been submitted and has been under review for near 2 months as of August 2000. It is expected that it will require several more months to clear the operations of HVVT of any fault, but the damage is already fatal.

Since August 2000, additional appeals have been submitted to the People's Committee and as of December 2000, the attention of Dr Nhan, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee offered assistance to resolve the issues. However, these efforts have been effectively blocked and as of 6 February 2001, the Vice Chairman in charge of this matter, Mr Le Thanh Hai, seems unable to make any decision on how to resolve the problems. The case will now move to the Administrative courts to review the illegal actions which resulted in the de-facto closing of one of Vietnams premier IT companies.

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