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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.

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  1. fp!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:fp!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. #1 OH YEAH by digitalmonkey2k1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First comment! YAY!!!

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  3. 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

  4. Terry Hillson has cute pantyhosed legs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yum yum it would be so nice to touch them and run my hands up and down them

  5. Re:The republican party has a solution... by Rudeboy777 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How could you miss the step we're in right now:

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  6. you are so un-funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow you really are a flaming loser

  7. Re:The Republican solution... by big-giant-head · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Give massive taxcuts to the productive, i.e. CEO's who make 20+ mil a year raping thier companies, outsourcing all jobs to india (except thiers of course) and then bankrupt thier companies with shady shadow companies to hide company debt they incurred.

    2) Continue Corporate welfare so that any company giving enough money under the table will never have to pay taxes.

    3) Drive 90% of all americans into $8 hour jobs, and the other 10% are wealthy corporate types who support the GOP

    4) When things tough declare that canada has WMD and invade.

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  8. Re:MORE LIKE #2 OH VOMIT, FAILURE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excellent job. The vomiting is a novel idea, as long as you remember to tell them that YOU FAIL IT!

  9. 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.