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

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:12:20 +1000
Message-Id: <3f837318$0$24715$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Jim Kennedy wrote:

> "JZ" <ibm_97_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:10bc841c.0310071124.5653d593_at_posting.google.com...

>> My experience tells me that it's impossible that major US tech firms
>> are going to shift their core projects to overseas, like India. Is
>> this possible that Oracle developed 10g in India, HP develops next
>> HP-UX in China, or Sun is developing Solaris 10 in India? Or, Merrill
>> Lynch's central database is moved to China? I don't think so.
>>
>> But for normal tech support or customer support people, it's time to
>> worry, no matter how high Naz can be.

> 
> Wanna bet.  Intel is planning on moving most of the development out of the
> US.  That isn't a minor company.
> Jim

I wish I could whisk you all back to 1912, and let you see the sheer terror that beset the Manchester cotton mills as the Indian cotton mills came on line at a sixth of the price, and everyone thought their jobs would be destroyed.

As it happens, it turns out they were right. Their jobs were destroyed. But is Manchester any the less for it today? It's a fine Victorian-architecure city that does a thriving trade on tourism, including industrial architecture tourism, and (apparently) is a acandidate for the Gay capital of Europe. Who would have imagined that?!

Point is, this thread is silly, because the forces at work are bigger than you or I can control, and at the end of it all, we'll survive. Just like they did in Manchester.

Read Adam Smith on the law of comparative advantage.

This isn't new, and it isn't the sky falling in either.

Regards
HJR

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