[ale] IT moving offshore

[Transam]

This seems to answer all of us wondering where all of the programming jobs
have gone.

-Bob

Forwarded:

"Fair Trade on Jobs?"
eWeek (05/13/02) Vol. 19, No. 19, P. 59; Vaas, Lisa 

U.S. companies are increasingly exporting their IT jobs offshore,
which should serve as a clear indication that information technology
is the latest sector to become industrialized. And like workers in
sectors such as agriculture, textiles, and auto manufacturing who
want to protect their jobs, IT workers will have to acquire strong
business skills. "Where all the development is outsourced, you've got
to have people to manage that," explains John Brudi, a DB2 programmer
at Radio Shack, who decided to take some business courses at George
Washington University after the company announced its outsourcing plan
two years ago. Howard Rubin, a research fellow at Meta Group, says
the majority of IT skills can be outsourced. Although market experts
expected the recession and U.S. nationalism following the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks would slow the outsourcing trend, they have not. In
fact, offshore outsourcing continues to gain in momentum as companies
try to reduce their IT costs. Gartner projects that 30 percent of all
Global 2000 enterprises will outsource IT offshore or nearshore by 2005.
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=25213&a=26941,00.asp

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