Oracle To Add R&D Centers In China

stoborrobots writes "Reuters is reporting that the big O is planning to open new R&D centres in china. Initially aiming at the domestic Chinese market, there is potential to resell the technologies developed beyond the borders... Is this the next wave of outsourcing?"

Simple Question, Simple Answer

[jmt9581]

"Is this the next wave of outsourcing?"

Yes.

Re:Simple Question, Simple Answer

[Anonymous Coward]

when you think about it, eventually every country will be outsourced

Re:Simple Question, Simple Answer

[Anonymous Coward]

As globalization increases, I think we will be seeing many more cultures come together.

and we'll all look back and wonder, why did we think, all those years ago, before cultural outsourcing, that "all your base are belong to us" was funny.

actually, i'm trying now to remember why i thought that was funny.

Is it just me ..

[asterix_2k1]

for whom 'big O' is NOT oracle but something else ;-)

Re:They're just a bit smarter: IQ=104 versus US 98

[Anonymous Coward]

sadly, the average IQ of people who believe statistics like this is only 45. (you believe me, don't you?)

I was thinking about

[asterix_2k1]

the 'big Oh' notation in computer science. What were you thinking about :-p ?

how do you tell you're reading /.?

[kasper37]

The term "Big O" is used in the article description but instead of referring to an orgasm, it refers to a software company.

Re:Simple Question, Simple Answer

[mc6809e]

Rock on! Kind of makes you proud to be a Westerner, doesn't it?

What's really bizzare about all of this?

1. Bush says "they hate us for our freedoms" but he doesn't believe it.
2. It's actually true, so he is accidentally right about something.
3. The Osamas of the world think America is morally too socially liberal.
4. so do conservatives in the US.
5. The US conservatives are fighting people they can somewhat agree with to protect the freedom of people they disagree with.
6. The political right doesn't realize it.
7. The political left doesn't realize it.

Postgres

[Rei]

.. and Oracle sure could use it. Perhaps the Chinese will *finally* make Oracle not be a pain to install and maintain.

It's almost laughable when you contrast Oracle with, say, Postgres. Apart from running the RPM command, all you have to do to get Postgres running publicly is edit two files in its config directory, one to turn on tcpip sockets and the other to tell it what authentication method to use. There's no monstrous pages out there with hundreds of errors comprising a very incomplete set of "how to deal with a few of the most common postgres installation problems" like there is with Oracle, for example.