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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Wired: outsourcing is good
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:47:49 -0400

Interesting article on outsourcing and Americans employed by foreign firms
within the US:

<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/8337927.htm?1c>


T O N Y S P E N C E R
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Kurt Schlatzer
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: 'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'
> Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Wired: outsourcing is good
>
> 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
>
>
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