Why China's software industry lags far behind the United States



Why we seldom use the domestic excellent large-scale software, such as we are using foreign IDE, for example, we are using foreign operating system, our company is to do information security products, recently the company plans to inspect some new products to agent, the job sent to me, I found some products to understand and analysis, This period also with some customers to exchange, found a domestic software products and foreign software products, the difference:

The same function of the software, the domestic software is basically still in the goal is "saving manpower", "with the machine to replace the person" to do things, the purpose is more efficient to the needs of people to do the repetitive work done. For example, I contacted a number of security audit system, database audit system, just simply to record the human operation process, in the report, but also simply to list the data. Several domestic software comparisons (especially when I directly and their sales, pre-sales engineer communication), their comparison of domestic competitors, are stuck in the "I can achieve this function (a technical detail), he does not achieve", "I report more than he rich, report format can have a good variety" and so on;

And the same software, several excellent foreign software, has risen to the "(part) to replace people thinking", "Summary-learning-Application" stage, they have a very rigorous, more advanced algorithm, on the one hand, can be based on the software vendor's own accumulation in the industry, the original obtained data analysis, modeling, Constantly improve the "thinking" ability of new products, on the other hand, the product itself can be based on the collection of customer's use of historical information, and according to the algorithm, targeted suggestions, guide customers in the use of products, through the product itself "learning", and constantly put the product good. For example: Database audit products, can be based on the frequency of a user's use of a library, automatically modeled, once a certain point of the user's behavior pattern and the original historical operation does not match, then decisively to judge the behavior, in the end is "sensitive" operation, or "need to prohibit" the operation, in advance to prevent dangerous behavior, You don't need to be an administrator to make rules for everything.

From this, and then think of why the domestic software industry has been repeated, imitation, Shanzhai Vicious competition, I think personally: on the one hand, domestic legislation, the environment does not encourage and protect software practitioners to do this underlying algorithm, improve product
"Intelligence" work; on the other hand, the domestic customers still do not understand the "intelligent" products and "physical" product fundamental differences, we bid each time, the customer will list a very detailed function, as a score basis, guide the manufacturers in the details of the dead pick again, on the one hand, the front two factors, In turn caused those who are willing to do algorithms, to strengthen the product "intelligence" manufacturers, than willing to strengthen the "physical" manufacturers die earlier.

The same kind of product competition, in the domestic, is generally a good product out, and then immediately out of N and this product function, interface similar to the same or even exactly the same product; So, this first out of the product into the endless refinement of the function, refinement of the interface of the cycle; a backward into the manufacturer, It is easy to kill or swarmed an advanced manufacturer.
In foreign countries, may be a product out, the factory will spend a lot of energy to tamp down the underlying algorithms and business model, and in this process, the use of accumulated data, and constantly optimize modeling, so that more matching the user's usage habits, more guidance and lead the use of this product users to get "smart" aspects of the promotion and expenditure savings. Thus, the formation of a virtuous circle, the more able to do a good job of the manufacturers, the more in line with customer habits, the more customers get more (access to all aspects of customer data and feedback), in turn, the role and products, but also to improve product quality. A backward into the vendors, because unable to obtain these based on the experience and data obtained by the core algorithms and patterns, so as not to be homogeneous competition, can only force this backward manufacturers work hard to find a new way, develop their own features and algorithms, from another perspective to impress customers, rather than simple imitation.
In a word, the domestic software industry, compared to the physical (performance) and function of the list and details, foreign excellent software, than the internal strength and "intelligence" and characteristics. ( swim to see it )

Why China's software industry lags far behind the United States