Do three-kilometers for international-class software

Making software that is not only in China but also in the global market is ideal for most Chinese software companies. What are the biggest challenges in making such software? How to cross this road? Recently, the reporter interviewed Zhang Chen, president of Yahoo Beijing’s global R&D center. He revealed that Yahoo! Beijing’s global R&D center is doing the next generation of Yahoo’s core products, and these products are facing unprecedented challenges to meet these challenges. Yahoo! Beijing Global R&D Center In practice, the reporter believes that there is certain enlightenment for China to develop world-class software.

Zhang Chen said: "Now Yahoo Beijing R & D center is doing the core platform for Yahoo's next-generation product development, and the next challenge to be the next generation of products is the concept and ideological." He admitted that Yahoo Beijing's global R&D center has been established for three years and has done a lot of products. However, many projects are led by China's R&D center in collaboration with China. “When you collaborate with the United States or other teams for collaborative R&D, you have a backing. We can take things from the American team to improve and define, but when we come to dominate the creation of the next generation of products, the challenge is very different. The first thing we face is how to define and position products." The author also visited the Institute of Multinational Corporations such as Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft Asia Engineering Research Institute, IBM China Research Institute, and Intel China Research Institute respectively. At that time, the deans of these companies were Microsoft’s Zhang Yaqin and Zhang Hongjiang. Or IBM's Li Shigong, or Intel's Fang Zhixi, once told reporters that to be world-leading software requires first to have a philosophy and vision that leads the industry and beyond others. Yahoo Beijing’s global R&D center was given the third-year anniversary of the Yahoo’s next-generation core platform’s R&D mission. As President Zhang Chen is both excited and feels unprecedented pressure, it should be said that the biggest challenge for such a project is to emancipate the mind. This is not only true for Yahoo. It is also true for Chinese software companies. If we have always been imitating and have been doing something that “people have me”, it is very difficult for us to make things that transcend others and lead the world. So, dare. To think that it is a prerequisite for leading innovation, China needs to cultivate such an innovative atmosphere. The president of Asia Pacific of BENTERLEY once expressed the same opinion to reporters. Many companies in foreign countries do software to realize their dreams. Only if they have enough ambitious ideals and ambitions, can they define products with more development space.

Second, experienced and experienced architects and engineers are indispensable. When Yahoo Beijing's global R&D center took over the next generation Yahoo's core platform's R&D mission, Zhang Chenxian’s job was to bring Yahoo’s chief architect from the United States to Beijing, China, and to stay with the senior architects and engineers. Zhang Chen said, "It is very difficult to make the next generation of products. Products with difficulty must have experienced, experienced architects and engineers to pick up the beam." It should be said that senior software architects and engineers are not only lacking in Yahoo! Beijing, but also multinational companies that have established research institutes in China are also lacking, but Microsoft, IBM, Intel, and Oracle's research institutes in China can be studied from the United States or other countries. The hospital coordinated with senior architects. The Chinese software must go from workshop to modernization. The senior software architect must pass this.

"Internal training is very important." Zhang Chen said: “We built R&D centers in Beijing because we were able to bring together the best software talents. These people are very smart and young. They lack systematic training, so it’s very important that we establish an R&D center in Beijing. The job is to train them more systematically, especially when they accept more challenging tasks. Such training is more necessary." The author once interviewed several outsourcing companies in China, including those of Chinasoft International, VanceInfo, and Haihui. They disclosed that because of outsourcing to IBM, Microsoft, and other foreign software giants, obtaining orders is an aspect, and more important. In the process of undertaking outsourcing, through the training of the contracting parties, it is also very important for them to directly or indirectly gain all-round capability through the "pass-band" of the contracting companies. These outsourcing companies have trained more high-end software talents through outsourcing projects. With talents, they can continue to expand into other higher value-added space such as industry solutions.