{"id":341,"date":"2008-02-02T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/google-to-setup-shop-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T01:58:31","slug":"google-to-setup-shop-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/google-to-setup-shop-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Google To Setup Shop in Malaysia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s buzz floating around that Google is going to build a data center in Malaysia. In a discussion I’m following on Slashdot<\/a>, some commenters are posting why or why not they should consider the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Here’s what they have to say (and comments thrown in by me):<\/p>\n

THE YESSES:<\/p>\n

1. Filipinos speak impeccable English.<\/em> – I agree that most of us can speak decent English, but impeccable? Don’t think so. But for sure we speak way better English than Malaysians (peace, la). This is still one of our strongest points over our neighboring countries.<\/p>\n

2. Labor is cheap in the Philippines.<\/em> – Not too sure, because considering the high-caliber engineers they require, Google can also have it cheap in Malaysia and India, if not cheaper.<\/p>\n

3. The Philippines is a very Westernized place. It would be easy for them to conduct business here.<\/em> – I’ll have to disagree with this one. Look at China.<\/p>\n

4. Filipinos love Linux.<\/em> – Ok, this guy is stretching it.<\/p>\n

THE NAYS:
\n
\n1. Filipinos don’t speak impeccable English. A Filipino friend of mine thought an RPG meant Rocket Propelled Grenade.<\/em> – Obviously this ignoramus is insinuating that we’re a nation of war freaks.<\/p>\n

2. Google isn’t trying to build a call center.<\/em> – Funny! But yeah, another jab at us.<\/p>\n

3. The Philippines lacks broadband capacity.<\/em> – Finally, someone who’s making sense. Not enough has been done by the government to improve our Internet backbone, and we’re paying for it dearly.<\/p>\n

4. Running a data center requires well-trained computer technicians, not English speakers.<\/em> – True, but our computer technicians are both well-trained and speak English. What’s the argument?<\/p>\n

5. If Google built a data center outside Manila, they might have to pay the NPA to avoid an attack, diba?<\/em> – No comment.<\/p>\n

Check out this page on Slashdot<\/a> to read the discussion’s entirety.<\/p>\n

It would be great to have Google setup base in our country. We have a lot of things going for us but at the same time some factors are working against us.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s buzz floating around that Google is going to build a data center in Malaysia. In a discussion I’m following on Slashdot, some commenters are posting why or why not they should consider the Philippines. Here’s what they have to say (and comments thrown in by me): THE YESSES: 1. Filipinos speak impeccable English. –… Continue reading Google To Setup Shop in Malaysia?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-5v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}