[ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)

[George Johnson]

Yes.  Just wait until Pakistan hits India with a nuke in just that right
spot that takes out the technology parks, or Russia goes south from
being a "friendly" nation.  Then these corporate bozos will scramble
back to what is left of us that will still know how to do the job.  Then
the $$$ will be sky high due to demand.

I only wonder what will happen during a world war if most of these
countries become enemies or the communication is broken.  We will find
out these jobs were better off on our shores.  Then there is the
manufacturing that will have to be rebuilt for our own war machine.

So this over seas sell off of our jobs, I believe, will come back to
haunt us in the end.

gj

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of Marvin
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Dickens
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:55 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:43:19 -0500 (EST)
"J.M. Taylor" <jtaylor at onlinea.com> wrote the following:

> Geoffrey said:
> > I've been on the
> > receiving end of software produced overseas as well as by
contractors
> > who can't even verbally communicate.  The code works, but sucks.
It's
> > not well written, it's not documented (if they don't have a command
of
> > the language, they can't speak OR write it).

Look, there is a lot that can happen in this year alone much less 3 to 5
years from now. The fact is that everday the world is becoming less
stable politically and economically. This is true for the US as well as
Europe and Asia. Think about it like this: If the US is 1 % more
politically and economically unstable today than it was 5 years ago
equates to a  50% rise in instability in emmerging third world nations
(Like India and Russia). As a CEO or member of a board, would you bet
your future in outsourcing IT into countries that are seriously
unstable? I think not... 

My point is that all of the talking heads (Like the Gardner Group...)
making predictions regarding overseas outsourcing are not taking into
account the rising instability of all nations and especially the fast
rising instability of emmerging third world nations. It's not gonna
happen as fast or as pervasive as they predict.

Best

Marvin Dickens
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