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I was at the Alipay headquarters a few weeks ago. What caught my eye was a large IBM machine kept outside the office with lots of signatures on them. When I ask
by jayadevan 10y ago
I was at the Alipay headquarters a few weeks ago. What caught my eye was a large IBM machine kept outside the office with lots of signatures on them. When I asked them what it was, they said this was the last piece of American technology the company used and they'd kept it as a trophy. They've replaced every thing else in the company with Chinese tech. That's quite something for a company which processes millions of transactions in a day.
- jamespo 10y agoWhat operating systems, stacks, languages, compilers, etc do they use?
- co_dh 10y agoI think this Chinese guy means machine, instead of tech.
- jayadevan 10y agoThat's probably what he meant. I'm Indian. I didn't go deep into what software etc, so apologies for what might come across as a loose comment. And agree with all of you about much of fundamental software coming from various nations. Can't be of any one country.
- kriro 10y agoThose are pretty hard to assign to a country I'd say. I mean is the Linux kernel Finnish? But yeah if the point is just to use non-US tech they could run Ubuntu Linux (SA) or OpenBSD (Canada) or I suppose Red Flag Linux (China). Language wise...maybe Python or PHP or Erlang or an ML language?
- hueving 10y agoThe kernel has heavy development from the US. If their intention was to think they were running complete on things not developed at least partially in the US, then they were really off the mark. Huawei even blatantly steals software for their network hardware from US companies. If they just meant the last piece of physical hardware sold by an American headquartered company, then I guess that's something?
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoPopular FOSS projects are typically invented in the US, funded by US companies, and consists of US developers. I think its a little arrogant to pretend these things would exist without the US. Also, whats in those Lenovo boxes? Godson chips or American Intels? They are absolutely not running Windows on any desktop then I assume?
- PopsiclePete 10y agoThe whole thing is laughable. And even then, even if they replace all "American" pieces of software and hardware, the remaining will probably be 80% European anyway! Great Victory, Comrades!
- turingbook 10y agoThey meant proprietary technologies were replaced by open sources or in-house ones.
- zerohp 10y agoChina has yet to design a viable server CPU, so I find the claim very hard to believe.
- klue07 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SW26010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SW26010
- lazylizard 10y agoso alipay is hosted on what servers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawning_Information_Industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawning_Information_Industry ???
- PopsiclePete 10y agoThat is obviously a ridiculous statement. Just think about it. What is "American tech"? How did they replace all of it? Do they run Linux? NetBSD? Windows? Guess what, that is as much "American" tech as it is "European" or "Canadian" or "Chinese". Do they use sockets and TCP/IP? Or HTTP? Yes? Well guess what, that isn't Chinese tech either! What programming language do they use? Do they use C? Or an OS that was built on C (hint: all of them) Oops. American! Do they use Email? American. Do they run Apache Web Server anywhere? Better not! How about SSL or TLS on that Web Server? OOPS! I mean it's nothing but a ridiculous circle-jerk that can impress maybe my aunt? How did it impress you?