SEE... I knew it...
... my comment and curiosity about possible "communications problems" within Adobe would be misconstrued as racism. I purposely left it "open" to be interpreted, knowing full well that there would be some people that would disregard a possible problem, because it might appear "racist".
However, it doesn't have anything to do with race, but it does have something to do with software quality. The idea to ship certain programming services overseas is a good one IMHO. HOWEVER... you must also have other people involved that know what's going on, what should be done, and have the creative and knowledge capacity, to know if it can be done and to ask for it to be done in the first place.
Evidence is clear, that creative capacity and innovation, (mostly) comes from the freedom to think creatively, not from hard-disciplined by-the-book learning aka learning "by rote". It is why America is as strong as they are... or maybe "were" is the proper tense. Also the reason why an Engineer should never take the place of a Designer (my profession). They have to work together. If you have cultural, and in effect communication divides, that just makes the product or goal, all that more difficult to achieve... but not impossible.
On paper at least, I see a major divide at Adobe, and hence (again only on paper) the possibility that it's different software teams are not integrated enough to produce anything other than Mumbo-Jumbo-Soup. That's exactly what the majority of Adobe's products have become... in my humble and honest opinion.
Can they do anything to fix it? They better have started yesterday. I don't even know if the have to the second half of 2010, when supposedly Flash 10.1 should be finalized and shipping with products. Actually, I don't even think that Adobe can communicate the urgency of the situation to it's employees by the Q3-4, 2010!
But... as always... time will tell.
PS. I'm an American ex-pat living in Europe, and loving the cultural diversity East and West for over 20 years now. Get into a room with a rep. from every European and former East-Block country... more fun can't be had... but often, some of the nastiest spats due to misconceptions, cultural differences, and yeah, language barriers and misunderstandings. I personally consider myself a world citizen and love every minute of it. To hell with borders... in your head, or on land! Thankfully, no time for that
