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Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giant-sucking-noise dept.

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.

2 of 859 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Offshore outsourcing troubled? by ERJ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, I was kinda wishing I had bought some scox stock...Price is up 50% in the last few days. scox

  2. Unclear antecedent by davidstrauss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate to be a grammar freak, but the reference to "they" in the posted story could be Novell or SCO. Each interpretation means exactly the opposite. While it wouldn't make sense for SCO to disclose an amendment that gives Novell ownership, that requires reading and thinking about the story, which we all know won't happen here.