Re:The Exodus of Tech from Portugal
by anil_mamede on Monday August 27, 2012 @07:48AM
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But Addega is not of technological nature. We cannot call it a technological service just because it's on WWW.
On the other hand Outsystems is one rare example of successfull, portuguese technological product.
I never used it, so I cannot comment on the technological nature of Adegga, but I imagine it's as technological as any other social network.
Outsystems seems to be pretty successful, yeah. But it's a software development platform, in which you drag an "if" block from a palette and drop it in a canvas. Most people prefer typing "if".
You can also see so called "startups" whose "business" consists of organizing dinners of 20 people, once a week. And there's always the team wanting to open a spa and bringing their "idea" to all incubators.
My solution was to work in close relationship to the university and a university spun-off company. Some interesting computer-vision stuff is made here, from time to time.