Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing

theodp writes "India offshore tech support companies may soon face job losses as U.S. companies such as IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and PeopleSoft explore countries with even cheaper sources of technical labor, including Romania, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Concerned that outsourcing might be outsourced from India in the near future, a Bangalore call center owner said 'It's hard to know where it will all end. Is there a country where people will work for free?'" There's a Newsforge story about the same subject.

Comments

Offshore outsourcing troubled?

[mao che minh]

Darn, and I was planning on using this year's tax return to fund my own Indian-based software company for a year. That could have paid for like, what, 8 Indian developers?

Oh well. I can always fall back on that SCOX stock.....oh wait.....

Captain Obvious Strikes Again!

[Violet Null]

It's really hard to come up with anything else to add to this story. I mean, did anyone _not_ see this coming? Global companies will do what's cheapest...and there will always be someone who'll be cheaper than you.

Now, when they start outsourcing management...that's when I'll be happy.

A country where people will work for free?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there a country where people will work for free? Yeah, the GNU.S.A.

Re:A country where people will work for free?

[EvilNTUser]

But GNU is Not USA!

There is a country where people work for free

[LearningHard]

Elbonia, lovely Elbonia

Yes there is!

[Mysticalfruit]

"Is there a country were people will work for free?"

Yes, such a country exists. However, to be part of this country you need to have a big needle stuck in the back of your head and your whole body gets submerged in Astrolube. Your then stored in this "pod" where this "dream" of your life is pumped into your brain by a big computer.

Now, in this dream your actually answering the phone and solving technical problems and you only "think" your getting paid for it. In real life, that money is getting collected so that more people can get plugged into the machine to make them more money...

There was this dude who realized it was a dream and managed to wake up. He now cleans the floors in the building that holds all the people and the big computer. We hear him wanding around go "Damn Red Buritto..."

Why are you complaining

[Anonymous Coward]

This is even better, now you can get even more developers for the same price, or the price for Indian developers will be cheaper. It's a win-win situation for you.

Re:Guess this means. . .

[davidhan]

it kinda sucks for the Indian employees who are going to be out of work now.

Maybe this will lead to an explosion of Indian blogging.

Re:I told you so...

[bedurndurn]

I am Stephen's appendix. I become inflammed and kill Stephen. w00t

Eventually they'll screw themselves

[Cro Magnon]

While the corporations are outsourcing everything to the lowest bidder, they're forgetting something important. SOMEBODY HAS TO BE ABLE TO BUY THEIR SHIT!!! If all the American workers are unemployed, and the Romanians are working for $100 per month, who's going to buy their shit? At best they'll have to lower their prices dramatically; at worst they're outta business!