From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 12:41:00 MDT
Ron h:
<<Right now they seem to have the idea they can survive and
thrive by seeking out sources of cheap labor. Being thugs at heart they are
also finding dictatorships (communist and other) that will sell them labor at
slave labor prices.
But these thugs will not prosper. As I see it they will be replaced
here and elsewhere by better smarter managers. I see those managers coming
from people such as you find on this list.>>
Ron, from your keyboard to Allah's email box! ;-)
Here is an interesting opinion from Reason magazine, and one that I like
since its seems insightful to me.<A HREF="http://www.reason.com/links/links073003.shtml">
http://www.reason.com/links/links073003.shtml>
"Take this howler from IBM spokeswoman, Kendra R. Collins, "It's not about
No, it's about working the cost side of balance sheet in search of profits;
But the catch is that out-sourcing is being embraced without much sign that
The Times also passes along some dubious information on the actual cost of
Ron h & Mitch-- two pro-capitalists, who know that corporate ass-licking has
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: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 12:50:19 MDT
one shore or another shore. It's about investing around the world, including the
United States, to build capability and deliver value as defined by our
customers."
revenues have been flat for two years and show little sign of improving. This
is what good managers do, and there is no reason to be ashamed of it if you
truly think you are going to make the company stronger.
it will actually make high-tech firms, particularly software companies, more
effective. Highly collaborative, imaginative work might suffer in the hands of
technically adept but inexperienced programmers.
Indian outsourcing which makes the pay gulf between the U.S. and elsewhere seem
impossibly wide. Stephanie Moore, vice president for outsourcing at <A HREF="http://www.forrester.com/">Forrester
Research</A>, claims that "crackerjack" Indian programmers can be had for $5,000 a
year. That might be close to what the programmers see, but it doesn't
represent the cost to a U.S. company to outsource. "
worked for centuries as the easiest means to achieve; but that ass-licking
doesn't bake bread or micro-chips! :-D