Re: IDS 11 - Press Releases

Data Cruncher wrote: > On Jun 18, 10:54 am, DA Morgan <damor...@psoug.org> wrote: > >> And I also aware of offshoring from India and China to Vietnam and >> elsewhere. >> >> Once the criteria is reduced to only cost ... the downward spiral will >> continue. > > If the implication is that offshoring to India (no idea about > china) is only to reduce cost, then you are completely wrong. > India is getting it because Indians are doing a good job. > An American programmer/DBA cost upto 3 times more > than an indian in India. Are they 3 times more productive. > The answer is plain NO. If we are talking only programmers I'd be inclined to say that they are equally or more productive in some respects. But we are talking about a lot of support and customer service jobs for the most part. > Also Indians are only moving low end jobs to Mexico. ROFL! That's not what is causing the angst in Bangalore. <g> -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org