25 Years Old and an Offshore IT Manager

dcblogs writes "The Chinese outsourcing market, at $1.7 billion last year, is growing at 38% a year, according to research by the Everest Group. This is creating opportunities for Westerners who want to go to China, learn the language, and help these Chinese offshore companies reach overseas markets. There are job opportunities for people with management experience or who are young and willing to gamble. Here's the story of one 25-year-old who started learning Mandarin on his plane ride over to China, three years ago, and is now an international development manager for an IT offshoring firm."

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Chengdu

[burpburp]

TA says that the guy lives in Chengdu. Well that means he's probably dead by now.

proprietary vs FOOS software

[falconwolf]

Proprietary software encourages rushed-out-the-door projects, open-source doesn't.

There's space for both proprietary and FOOS software. Photoshop is a good example of proprietary software, despite being worked on for more than 10 years GIMP is no where near having the capabilities of Photoshop. While CinePaint, aka FilmGIMP, is closer I don't know if it has all the capabilities of PS. While I haven't used PS I did use GIMP and Paint Shop Pro, and PSP beat GIMP handily.

Actually open source does encourage rushing software out of the door. Look at how often fixes are released, frequently. Of course many OS projects make it easy to install patches but they are still released with bugs.

Falcon