Re: Outsourcing developer to India and China - As an Oracle developer I am miffed

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:15:17 +0100, "John Rutherford" <jr1.rutherford_at_virgin.net> wrote:

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>Apologies if this is a bit off topic - But I have just come back off an oracle course - 2 people of which are being made redundent due to outsourcing.
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>Are we having our life opportunities terminated and rolled out at a cheaper cost in these countries. I thought Globalisation was supposed to bring competition - Instead our IT manager are giving away our livlyhoods for nothing.
>So what if cheaper - Is it ethical????? Is it fair on your children or the society your ancestors dreamed of building.
>If these people want oracle jobs than they should get of their butts and come to 1st world countries. We should not give it to them on a plate just to save a few scents - Cause lets face it - once these economies try to get off their knees we will bomb them back into the stone age - But for you my oracle friends -that will be too late!!
>2 things we can do
>Boycott organisations who outsource
>Be ethical as a customer and use vendors who do not outsource ie Pick who you bank with and by food from carefully- you get the idea

You don't seem to understand the basic principles of Capitalism. Capitalism is not about ethics, it is about *gain*.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA