Re: Oracle and Non-Green Card Indians
Date: 28 Nov 1994 15:31:03 GMT
Message-ID: <3bct3n$e0c_at_ceylon.gte.com>
In article <smithCzytAE.8zM_at_netcom.com>, smith_at_netcom.com ( David Smith at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) writes:
|> Simon Stow (sstow_at_uk.oracle.com) wrote:
|> : In this industry, more than any other, we all have to compete in a
|> : global environment. I work for Oracle developing Oracle products in
|> : the United Kingdom. Here we employ many people with passports from
|> : many different countries: we even employ Americans on the UK
|> : equivalent of H-1 visas.
|> : I know that in Oracle offices all around the world, from Moscow to
|> : Malaysia, from Brazil to Bracknell, there are many US citizens. I do
|> : not believe that their presence is resented. I suspect, but cannot
|> : prove, that there are many more US citizens working for Oracle in other
|> : countries than there are non-US citizens working for Oracle in the
|> : US.
|> : We all now have to compete in a global market for software
|> : engineering skills. The internet reflects that. God knows I see
|> : enough postings for DBA jobs in states of the US that I have never
|> : even heard of. I relish that challenge. I'm sorry you don't.
|> : Nobody ever won by not competing. If they did Albania would be the
|> : most powerful nation on the planet by now.
|>
|> Surprisingly, Japan is a resource poor island, in the Pacific Ocean. They
|> don't have any official immigration, and are the envy of the modern
|> Industrial World. No Non-Green card Indians, no illegal aliens, and not
|> 850,000 of the third world immigrating each year, and they still compete
|> with the best of them. Tell that to Albania - the problem ain't with their
|> immigration policy.
Sudip Chakraborty Received on Mon Nov 28 1994 - 16:31:03 CET