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?"

Re:Simple Question, Simple Answer

[coaxial]

No? What about Hollywood? American music? Japanese video games? Western styles of clothing? Ethnic foods?

That would be exporting [reference.com] , not outsourcing [reference.com] . You and the mods need to get thee to a dictionary.

Re:Simple Question, Simple Answer

[tarunthegreat2]

There's nothing close-minded about it. I'm simply saying India has the strengths conducive to software, whereas China is better with the hardware. The reason you don't know about any Indian inventions is because you must be American, and have never seen it on Fox News. Chess, and some significant additions to Mathematics [google.com] originated in India. On top of there is Vedic Mathematics [wikipedia.org]. And just because "Indian" is incomprehensible to you, doesn't mean it is to others [wikipedia.org]. There is NO "Indian". People in India speak 28 different languages. The fact that there are so many, and also the fact that they all want their language to be prominent forces all of them to learn English. because English is not a particular to any region of India, so there is no bias associated with it.

Re:Simple Question, Simple Answer

[JBdH]

Sorry, also the language situation in China is incredibly diverse. Not only do all the ethnic minorities have there own language, i.e. turkish, persian and the like languages, but the Han chinese among themselves have dialects that are incomprehensible for non-dialect speakers. The official Mandarin language is widely tought in school, but has a status similar to Hindi, I guess : a lot of people (mostly Han) speak it as their mother tongue, but nowhere near a majority. For the rest it is a rudimentary lingua franca at best. You're right about the official language stuff, though. The Han chinese try to get rid of the other languages. Don't if that's better

Re:Who cares?

[Snosty]

Who cares about a crap closed-source database?

Crap? Before you sound off about a product you should make an effort to have even the vaguest notion of what you are talking about. Those of us that work with databases professionally know and appreciate what the likes of Oracle can do for us that the current OSS alternatives simply cannot. I would love to see a free and open database be able to compete with Oracle on a terrabyte scale but we simply aren't there yet.

It's ok to be an OSS fan, but for the love of god stay grounded, man!

Re:Simple Question, Simple Answer

[tarunthegreat2]

Nice try at flamebait. Not working.

Chinese/Far Asians cannot code

Flamebait,troll,load-of-crap,not-worth-replying-to .

What is a far Asian? Somebody living a 100 miles away? I've heard of East Asian(Chinese), North Asian(Japanese/Siberian), South Asian(Sub-continental) and West Asian (Saudi Arabia e.t.c.). But never a far Asian. Chinese people as a rule are more homogenous than Indians, and by all anecdotal evidence are much more disciplined."

haha. Chinese are not homogenous at all, although they look the same to "us". And discipline does not count, it's only important that they do what you want them to do.

I still stand by this statement. In India, you can cross over to a neighbouring state, and all of sudden not even be able to read that State's language, or understand it. It's written using a different script in some cases. This doesn't hold for one or two exceptions. It's the norm. The wedding customs followed vary. The type of cuisine can change drastically. Much more than say the difference between Sichuan or Cantonese (both are yummy btw). And Chinese people don't "look the same" to me. After having spent 12 years in Hong Kong, it's easy to spot the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean, no sweat. Same goes for their written and spoken languages. It's easy if you just bother to use your brain's power of observation. Eastern Europe and the Baltics have a shot, but they'll never be able to compete on numbers - human numbers. Size of most baltic countries = a small-sized city China/India.