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

Comments interspersed.

Ross McKay wrote:

>On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:55:47 -0700, Daniel Morgan
><damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
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>>And as Jitendra is absolutely correct the only thing one can do to
>>compete with him is to provide things he can't provide:
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>>1. He can't go to a meeting and make himself a useful member of the team.
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>And that, at least, could make him *more* effective and efficient in
>many corporate environments ;)
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Provided they hire someone capable of writing specifications that don't require modification.

>>...
>>5. He can't communicate in English or French or German or Spanish or
>>Japanese as well as some of us might.
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>In that respect, a great many of my Australian-born compatriots are
>right up there with him. From reading USENET posts, I can see that the
>same applies in the USA and UK also (and I don't mean French, German,
>Spanish or Japanese...)
>--
>Ross McKay, WebAware Pty Ltd
>"Words can only hurt if you try to read them. Don't play their game" - Zoolander
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Oh come now. I've met more than a few from Oz that could speak English. Well maybe not according to the
English ... but at least well enough to make work in America.

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