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Sun to Build Alternative Desktop ?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-challange-on dept.

murthydn writes " At "Sun Tech Days 2003" Developer Conference in India ,Sun Microsystems Inc Chairman, President and CEO Scott McNealy exhorted Indian software programmers to build Sun's "desktop computer" as an alternative system to Microsoft software architecture .The complete article is here" 'Cuz if there is one thing that will save Sun, its a new desktop platform. *cough*

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  1. no more cheap indian programmers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    If there is one thing the software industry needs to learn, it's that you don't guarantee a good product by simply buying hoards of cheap labor. The jobs crisis is because the industry is full of semi-qualified people and employees unable to tell the difference.

  2. What about Americans? by hackstraw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is US centric, so consider yourself warned.

    I'm starting to get pretty pissed off at US companies farming out work to H1Bs and overseas. I remember when I was a kid, there was pride in the US and American products. Foreign cars (mostly Japanese) were cheaper, more fuel efficient alternatives to US models, and there was some kind of "buy American" belief that most people held.

    But today, many of the largest companies in the US are giving money to foreigners, not immigrants, but giving the money away. And the motivation is purely greed (competition I guess in the companies eyes).

    Sun does it, I've heard that Intel does it, Nike, and I'm sure that whoever is not on the list now, is looking to do so soon.

    This is utter bullshit. I went to college, spent 2 years in grad school, learned Linux/UNIX on my own time and am an administer of a million dollar computer, and coadminister another XX million dollar computer, and purchase 50 to 100k worth of equipment a year. Yet, I drive a 1991 car that my father gave me, live in an apartment because I can't afford a house, and my home computer is a 100MHz AMD. Yes, I am grateful to have a job, especially since I was laid off for 6 months not too long ago, but maybe I would be able to afford to have the "average American" things if I weren't competing with every computer employee in the world.

    I don't mind competing based on skills, bring em on! But to lower my standard of living because of this competition, no, I don't think so.