Tuesday November 01, 2005
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Tuesday November 01, 2005 I spoke at "OSS Global Emerging Technology Executive Summit," organized by Taiwan's III, a semi-government organization chartered with enhancing the island's software industry. About 200 or so participated my session on OpenSolaris, mostly representatives from the industry. There are also people from the education and research industries.
My thesis is that Taiwan must shift to embedded software development and OpenSolaris provides the perfect opportunity.
First time, I blog bi-lingually.
| 台灣有她的硬體工業. 從新竹,五股, 到汐止,工程師們做出各種各樣的新東西. 立刻,變成了我們的必需品,或生活用品. 他們也外包去了大陸,降低成本. 我們享受便宜的價格. 當個台灣的消費者, 多好. | Taiwan has an advantage of its superb hardware-oriented industry. From HsinChu to WeGu to XiZhi, smart engineers are figuring out the best devices that run much of your life, or make it so, so much easier. Further, they have outsourced the manufacturing to China so that you can enjoy the low, low price. Aren’t this good for us consumers? |
| 可是社會呢? 拼製造成本, 太辛苦了. 尤其是你的平均公資是對岸的3到10倍. 唯一的出路,是提高我們的附加價值. 就是改行去設計. 不拼運行效率或製造成本. | But what about Taiwan? Low-cost manufacturing is such a hard value, particular when the GDP per capita is 3 to 10 times higher than China, depending on where do you look. It seems the only way is to push for higher value-add. This means shifting the focus to design skill, from operational efficiency and low-cost manufacturing. |
| 設計? 就是軟體. 硬體設計, 就是軟體設計. 誰不同意, 來和我拼啤酒. | What is “design?” In a very simplistic (and a bit self-serving way), it is software. Design is software. Hardware design is just software design. Who wishes to argue with me get a case of beer first (wine works too). |
| 設計,是個思考的過程.把全程一步一步的寫下來. 交給另一單位去執行. 這, 也就是軟體設計. | Designing is about thinking through the whole thing, writing down every step, and handing over someone else to execute. That is just software. |
| 一個強力的硬體工業, 要改行設計. 怎麼做? 答案是嵌入式軟體. 嵌入式軟體是那鐵盒子的靈魂. 加了她, 盒子就活起來了. 台灣,必須做嵌入式軟體. | Let’s think. A superb hardware-oriented industry that is shifting up to design, what will follow that? I can think of only one thing – embedded software. That’s the magic that brings life to a box of metal and plastics. Taiwan must march toward the competency of embedded software. |
| 可是,幾百幾千家硬體公司. 不能都去做嵌入式軟體. 力量散了, 就沒了競爭力, 那, 一切都別提了. 附加價值, 升值, 利潤, GDP. 都不必了. | Here we encounter a problem. There are hundreds of small to medium hardware companies, if every and each one of them started to invest on embedded software expertise, Taiwan will end up with a fragmented, non-competitive, and ineffective embedded software industry. Forget value-adding, forget shifting up, forget profit, forget GDP. |
| 政府站出來, 大家一起開發平台的嵌入式軟體. 做出來, 大家用. 每個人加上他的應用軟體. 每個人賺錢. 多好. | There should be an alliance that develops the platform-level embedded software and share that with everyone in this island. Sharing is good, everybody wins. Let’s form a Taiwan embedded software alliance, fund it to develop an embedded software environment, everyone uses it and add application-level value-add, money rolls in, life will be good. |
| 等一下. 這個”平台面嵌入式軟體聯盟”不能用Linux. 因為他是個聯盟,就必須有個牌子. 聯盟的創新發明, 不能是自由軟體. 不然他如何競爭? | Wait. If the alliance chooses Linux, innovations must be contributed back to the society. The differentiation can only be service and support, and not technology. How would this alliance, and all those who will innovate on top of its creation, thrive then? |
| 這就是我的議題了. 用OpenSolaris 的 CDDL. 可以有品牌, 可以有創新, 可以有科技. 可以贏. | Yes, this is my punch line. I am so obvious. Right? Use OpenSolaris. CDDL gives you the choice. The technologies in it give you unlimited innovation possibilities. You can do your own brand and keep your technological leadership as long as you wish. |
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