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Oracle To Add R&D Centers In China

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-there's-data-in-china dept.

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?"

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  1. As long as this continues to be the trend... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... We are foolish not to use all our sway to move to Open Source solutions in our companies and to develop Open Source Software.

    OSS is no longer an ideology, it is fiscal self defense for programmers and IT professionals in general. Open Source allows us to start our own businesses offering support and design services without the middle man of large software companies that will always seek to downsize us to cheaper people.

    I'm sure others may disagree, but this is the way I see things.

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  3. Re:This isn't just programming, it's R&D by asterix_2k1 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    No there is a big difference here. The article says that Oracle now considers China's domestic market to be profitable enough to invest. I am sure that the R&D centre in China will be more or less focussed on making China-specific products.

    As an analogy, IBM's research lab in India is focussed on making eGovernance solutions, machine translation solns from/to Indian languages, Hindi speech reco etc.

    Also, it goes without saying that it adds to the overall prestige of Oracle as well.

  4. Who wants a small-town America? by Morgaine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Jeez folks, get out of this recent small-town myopia about outsourcing. You can do better than that. Dell's a good example of how excellent US industry can be if you shrug off yesterday's models and try to be genuinely different and quality-focussed, instead of regressive and protectionist.

    If you complain about outsourcing you're merely buying into politician's agendas, effectively giving them an easy platform of "Vote for me and I will protect your jobs". Make great stuff and you don't need protectionism. And if you really value a free market, restrictions should be the last thing on your minds anyway.

    The world is a tiny place now, you shouldn't be thinking about "keeping jobs at home" any more than you'd think about extracting all your raw materials from home too. That's not today's world. You can't compete on the basis of labour cost, that should be obvious; you need to be better.

    Globalization of both the markets and the production has been immense in recent decades, and no megacorp can afford to chain itself down with yesterday's small-town views nor barriers against free flow of resources.

    --
    "The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
  5. Oracle is a global company. by houseofmore · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oracle outfits companies around the globe. They advertise themselves as a global company. If they open local office, it's hardly outsourcing.

    If my company in New Zealand, or Canada, or wherever, made a billion dollars in the states, and decided it was time to open up a US office,would be out sourcing? Don't be so fucking greedy.