From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 16:23:27 MDT
Mitch quotes from http://www.reason.com/links/links073003.shtml
Take this howler from IBM spokeswoman, Kendra R. Collins,
"It's not about 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."
No, it's about working the cost side of balance sheet in
search of profits; 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.
Well, that's what I would say too.
But the catch is that out-sourcing is being embraced without
much sign that 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.
Okay, the market place is smarter, MUCH smarter than all of
us. Let it sort it out. If this is true, then the companies
that send the work to India will on average not do so well---
so the capitalists and entrepreneurs should be encouraged to
follow their own profit seeking instincts.
> Ron h & Mitch-- two pro-capitalists, who know that corporate
> ass-licking has worked for centuries as the easiest means to
> achieve; but that ass-licking doesn't bake bread or micro-chips! :-D
But it hasn't worked in the West for centuries! What
has worked has been thousands of small time entrepreneurs
(like my boss) or the genius Rockefellers, Morgans, and
Fords. That has been what has worked.
Your mission, should you choose to undertake, is to explain
what is different now. Government regulation? Failing
character values among socialized pampered Americans?
As usual, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of
your mission. Good luck Mitch.
Lee
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