BusinessWeek on Outsourcing

hotsauce writes "BusinessWeek has a couple of stories on the outsourcing of white collar jobs to India. One is a cover story on GE's fundamental research lab in Bangalore where scientists work on everything from the aerodynamics of turbines to plastics' molecular structure. The other is commentary on "America's worst-kept secret", and the effects of the upcoming elections on it."

Comments

But how?

[Anonymous Coward]

I need to figure out a way to outsource my unemployment.

Re:But how?

[willabr]

Open source is digging its own hole.

I think that the combination of out sourcing and the open source movement has done the industry no good, no good at all. Yes "Unix" (alias Linux) has once again reared its head, but so what. It's has been around for let see... 30 Years or so. Might as well give it a go.

I think that Red Hat has seen the writing on the wall and jumped to the "Enterprise" market.

As For UNIX I'll stick with Solaris. At least they innovate on a technical and hardware level and not just on the "Distribution" level.

I see most Lin/UNIX companies waiting for the next improvement and features added by the innovative competition then the masses study and eventually copy the feature set. Not much innovation there.

This "Me Too" type of development process can be easily moved to China, Russia, India, Mexico, or maybe even Finland (don't see many programming jobs moving to Finland, not exactly the capitalist model 60%+taxes!) Maybe we could start an open source movement funding language courses in America, why not? It may add to the skill set future programmers in America will need to compete. Open Source Hindi, Think about it, it could start by moving Indian call desk Jobs to the US ;-)

It seems that most of the open source comments here border on religious rather then sound economics. I get the feeling that Most have an axe to grind with one commercial software company or another and let it be known.

In my humble opinion (I hate acronyms) I'm just a software consumer, not a developer and I know nothing about sitting behind a computer and trying to develop a product then spending months (years?) typing away, while hoping to make a buck. We will have some people with software that is "Centrally Planned and Managed" where one of the objectives is value add which results in profit (The so called "Dark Side") You can buy it or not, and others that will be built "By Committee" and open to all who care to add to it with out much oversight and/or planning (i.e. open source IE patch), Maybe it fits maybe not, this seems to define the open source "politics" of today.

Ramble On...

Re:India Sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, well cowboys and Indians never really got on did they?

Re:Getting out of IT...

[Anonymous Coward]

That can be outsourced, too.

I am from India

[Anonymous Coward]

I am from India and sometimes I cry when I think that my new Humvee and 7 bedroom house is paid for by unemployed, suffering Americans. But then I get over it. Hooray!!!

That reminds me

[Anonymous Coward]

A cannibal walked in to the cannibal resturant and was looking at the menu...

Windows Administrator $2
Windows Developer $2
Solaris Administrator $2
Indian Programmer $16

The cannibal asked the waiter, "Why is the Indian programmer so fucking much?"

The waiter replied, "You ever tried cleaning one of those things?"

Refuse to talk to them?

[MrSoccerMom]

So will it do any good, after you've been laid off and the bill collectors start calling from India, to refuse to talk to anyone with an Indian accent? ;-)

Re:Just Not Thinking

[AndroidCat]

worry when they see the new Sony robot that can run?

I can see the headlines: "Why Johnny 5 Can't Run" (ref)

Re:India Colonizes Cyberspace while US colonizes I

[leoaugust]

Guess who is going to have more benefits in the long run ?

Really ? In the Long Run? Economist John Maynard Keynes said In the long run ... we are all dead.

Re:Natural step.

[orthogonal]

They gladly pays it for a two person dinner that lasts one hour

Gollum? Are those nasty Hobbitses Sam and Frodo not inviting you to join them for dinner again?

They gladly eats the raw fishes that should be Gollum's?