Brazil's thriving industry
The success story could have come from California's Silicon Valley. Three young, blue-jeans-clad engineers tinkered with computer ideas in a garage and eventually designed a successful desktop machine. Their company, Scopus, grew so rapidly that by 1983 it had sales of $26 million. But this is not just another California start-up-to-success story. Housed in a modest concrete building, the eight-year-old firm operates out of a rundown industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city.
Scopus is now among the country's largest makers of personal computers and a leader of its remarkable data-processing industry. Despite economic woes that...
