[ale] IT moving offshore

[Jeff Hubbs]

This begs the question of why any Americans should bother going to
school to learn how to write software, as horrible as that sounds.  

When the guy says "Where all the development is outsourced, you've got
to have people to manage that," the people doing the managing will
simply not understand good programming from crappy programming because
they won't have written a line in their lives.  Of course, I've seen IT
management people who fit that exact description, but who wants to live
in a world where most of the software was written by the cheapest labor
possible?  

I say, reduce IT costs by using Open Source software and fast,
readily-available commodity computer components before skimping on good,
hardworking people at arm's reach.  Do the research and figure out how
to buy only what you really need for HW and SW.  The sub-$5000 1TB RAID
file server exists, for instance!

- Jeff

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 22:56, Transam wrote:
> 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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