Malaysia does have its own sofware , the UBS accounting
and InternetNow MailServer :-) . InternetNow had fairly good success in
Malaysia, handful in Singapore and now working out a distribution deal
in Iran for the latest MailNow!5 and with USA's After logic.
What Inow don't have is branding and mentality advantage attributes to
our foregin competitors such as Merak, Mdaemon and well in some ways ,
MS Exchange.
As a developer in a company pushing locally developed software for
years in Malaysia (not project based, not customized one off
solutions), i guess the biggest challenge we face
is :
1. Matching salary Vs Multinational offers. You guys have any idea what
CodeMaster offer fresh grads...go take a peek.
2. Lack of System developers, (tons of webs developers though..)
3. No recognition from Gov so far, ok we won the PIKOM award and an
award from APMIITA (in my year apmiita first prize went to a kid who
did a football website, since then we decided
its not worth joining such awards)
I would want to apologize as Inow sofwares are not in Open Source, so
far in reality, none of our customers ask for the source nor bothered
about it. I had a talk with Red1 during the mygosscon BOF
and tried to learn as much as i can about how Open source helped him,
in some ways though, he is still unique since he is not just dling and
pushing what everyone else can do, he has somehow (despite not being a
developer!) end up as a head of the project. We have met a lot of
people with all kinds of emnity against us succeeding as local
software, some just put as on the wayside as "re-inventing the wheel",
some "no match for US products" but at the its the local reseller here
and corporate market welcome us the most.
As for competent developers, i doubt pumping 8k a month can make
anything out. Programming has always been a very individual choice and
talent. What can be done is maybe at the uni levels,
open up their standard and exposure, correct the wrong mentality that
programming is a beginner's job or "uncool" and put competitions that
matches against foreigners programmers. If one can't compare, one cant
understand.
- cheers
Raja Iskandar Shah wrote:
red1, your 2nd slide is based on the pest analysis technique and
not porter's 5 forces
pest analysis : political, economic, social, technological
porter's 5 forces : competitor, newcomer, buyer, supplier, product
in the perfect capitalist free market : the best software company is
one that kills off its competitors (until it is the remaining
monopoly), prevent newcomers by registering a string of generic
business method patents, locks-in the buyer to its products, buys-out
its suppliers, and spread fud on competiting products.
now if that software company sits in the msc iap, do you think it is
going to help malaysia create it's own software ?
kudos to najib for sticking his neck out and telling off the iap
members that its time malaysia had its own software.
imho, we need rm30 million over rmk10 to produce 100 world class
developers. jpa spends minimum rm300k to produce 1 graduate from the
oxbridge and ivy league top world class universities. which means 100
world class developers x rm300k = rm30 million.
red1 and myself have already calculated that to produce 1 competent
freshie developer takes 6 months and rm50k (average of rm8k per month).
this person's income value is rm8k per month (using kelly salary guide
max scale for a websphere application developer). with 100 developers
over 5 years the total value is rm50 million. which is a 67% return on
investment ( ROI !) for the govt.
we have not even talked about the us$1000 per manday or euro1500 per
manday fees that the top developers can demand.
2009/11/13 red1 <[email protected]>
Dalam http://red1.org/MSC8.pdf
saya menyatakan dalam Michael Porter's 5
Forces diagram pada mukasurat 2 dimana cabaran pertandingan dengan
dunia, MSC tengah kalah, dan harapan atau peluangnya saya telah memberi
contoh projek dari kebun di Kuang sebagai berjaya meraut kedudukan
pertama dalam dunia.
Maksud 'perang jenama' adalah penting untuk difahami sebagai satu perang
saraf peringkat antarabangsa. Dalam buku 'Positioning - The Battle of
the Mind' tulisan guru marketing Al Ries dan Jack Trout ada mengambarkan
bahawa realiti adalah bergantung kepada persepsi atau imej.
Dalam perang jenama dengan dunia, YAB Tun Dr. Mahathir dengan memahami
konsep tersebut, berjaya meletakkan persepsi terhadap Malaysia sebagai
sebuah pencabar utama dunia satu ketika dahulu. Mengapa kini imej
tersebut payah dipertahankan? Apakah sudah berubah kebolehan rakyatnya?
Jawapannya ialah tidak. Kami masih belum berubah sebagai pencabar
gergasi dunia. Lihatlah pada tokoh seperti Jimmy Choo, Nichols David,
Michele Yeoh dan pembuat thumb-drive. Apa yang berubah adalah perang
saraf persepsi.
Sebagai contoh, semasa zaman Pak Lah, beliau gagal menonjolkan imej
sepatutnya dan walaupun beliau seorang yang cukup baik, namun persepsi
umum terhadapnya menjatuhkannya. Begitu juga mengenai MSC, saya percaya
pencapaian MSC cukup tinggi. Lihatlah kad pengenalan bercip dan passport
automatik kita yang tidak ada tandingan lain di dunia? Tetapi apakah
dunia sedar tentang itu?
Apabila saya berjalan masuk ke pekarangan MDec, saya tidak dapat merasa
imej tersebut dari papan-papan iklan dan ayat-ayat yang terpampar kiri,
kanan dan atas dinding. Jika saya berjalan masuk Universiti Lim Kok
Wing, saya dapat rasa kebijaksanaan LKW dalam mempertonjolkan tempatnya
sebagai tokoh besar dunia, walaupun saya tidak percaya kepada Lim Kok
Wing secara peribadi dan tidak ingin membantunya. Saya percaya kepada
jenama Malaysia dan ingin membantu Malaysia.
Hakikatnya kita nombor 1. Tetapi kita gagal menjual diri kita kepada
dunia. Sudah sampai masanya kita sedar tentang betapa pentingnya
memahami teori menaikkan jenama yang sebenarnya dan mengorak langkah ke
arah itu. Saya syorkan kepada mereka yang ingin mengetahui lebih lanjut
supaya Google atau Wikipedia untuk 'Al Ries' and 'Jack Trout'.
red1
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