gEDA-user: OT?: Altium (Protel) Relocates From Sydney Australia to Shanghai China

[Bob Paddock <bob.paddock@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know several people here use Altium and/or Protel, such as when the
Day Job forces us to do so, anyway though you might find of interest that
Altium has announced they are moving the company to Shanghai China.

Former Altium employ David L. Jones of EEBlog http://www.eevblog.com/
confirms this:

"They [Altium] are moving, lock stock and barrel, to China, and as a result, a
whole bunch of people were made redundant or laid off...I don't know
the exact numbers, but it's a lot,...The idea is to move all their R&D
to China, and pretty much start again." -- David L. Jones of
 as quoted here http://www.theamphour.com/2011/04/05/the-chinese-clairvoyancy/ .

Press Release: http://www.noodls.com/view/35AEF71FED0C4035C1F9EA872525988B2CCC323E

News :
http://pcdandf.blogspot.com/2011/04/altium-on-move.html

http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/altium-relocates-from-sydney-to-shanghai

The press release says: "Altium plans to expand its R&D team over time
by drawing on the talent pool in China."

I spent some time with someone who had been doing some consulting for
a company in China that developed Cellphones.  His description of the
development process in China was, ammm, unkind.  His description went
something like this: The Chinese developers had no access to
Internet.  They had no idea what "good code" should look like [Sadly,
from seeing code on Internet, it seems like a lot of people that do
have Internet don't get know either].  After a new developer gained
some experience they were promoted to management, and a new
inexperienced developer was brought in to replace him [No evidence to
support there are any female developers involved here.  Are females
smart enough to stay out of this field or they are never born with the
'Knack' (Dilbert[TM] reference)?].  Any developer that wanted to keep
doing development, because they enjoyed it, was seen as lazy by the
culture from not getting promoted to management.

The developers always wanted to know "the fastest way" to do something
and had no interest in learning "the best way" to do something.

In the end the company did ship Cellphones that some how did work.  Is
that all that maters?  I hope not...
Is this one company representative of all development in China?  I hope not...

Hopefully  this will drive a lot more interest to gEDA and PCB.


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