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["Kurt Schlatzer" <kurt AT kurtschlatzer.com>]

Alan MacHett wrote:
> Whose side are these people on!??

Ben Franklin's.
 
> "But the ITAA also predicts that outsourcing will
> create 317,000 entirely new jobs in the US over the next four years
> as a result of cost savings. And outsourcing generated 90,000 jobs in
> 2003 alone."

I too predict a rise in jobs here in the US from outsourcing. Someone will
have to clean up all the crappy code generated by a bunch of sweatshop
coders with no sense of investment or innovation related to their projects.

Speaking of innovation, where can it exist in an outsourced project? Why
should a sweatshop even bother to suggest product enhancements or the
creation of new, more efficient or more advanced technologies within the
applications they are banging out? Churn and burn. IT and business
innovation will suffer as a whole from this "exercise" ultimately resulting
in higher cost or higher loss in the future.

Kurt Schlatzer
www.kurtschlatzer.com