Do Dutch high tech companies invest enough in software development? Bits&Chips poses the question to Guustaaf Savenije and Ton Peijnenburg of VDL ETG, the largest tier-1 high tech supplier and hardware company in the Netherlands. “Software is just one of the disciplines – no more, no less. Better participate in the multidisciplinary world!”
“We’ll never get rich from software alone.” Guustaaf Savenije, the CEO of VDL ETG, immediately tempers the expectations when asked about his company’s software strategy. The tone is set.
Savenije counts ASML and Thermo Fisher among his customers. If they no longer build hardware, he says, then they no longer have to develop software. That’s also where the priorities of the Netherlands’ largest high tech supplier lie.
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