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

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:28:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1065594526.869691@yasure>


nullpointer wrote:

>ibm_97_at_yahoo.com (JZ) 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.
>>
>>
>
>Just FYI.
>Oracle is developing a significant portion of the 10G database right
>here in India. Gone are the days when only tech support was
>outsourced, although is does still form the major chunk of the work
>done in India. Now several companies have realised the huge amount of
>technical talent available in India and have started trusting their
>Indian subsidaries with core development.
>
>People will crib, people will rant but you cant stop change, because
>if a company needs to remain competitive it needs to find places where
>it can get the best quality for the best price.
>
>Regds
>Dev
>
>

And not only has a significant amount of 10g been developed in India ... Teradata has built its entire
product in India.

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Received on Wed Oct 08 2003 - 01:28:42 CDT

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