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Jobs to India -- A Broad Look
dumpster_dave writes "Wired has an excellent 7 page article on the current and future trend and nature of IT outsourcing from the United States. The conclusion: the smell of inevitability--the economy will survive, though your job, as it is currently, will likely not. Outsourcing is expected to expand from Service and code projects to the creative aspects as well, with obvious correlations experienced in the manufacturing industry during the 70s and 80s. An excellent read that provides good coverage of the perspectives of players on all sides."
It's your own damn fault for being overpaid and underachiveing.
It won't be a problem once Pakistan nukes their asses very soon.
American people got jobs all century TIME for PAKI people get job!!! Why american get 42" TV why Paki not get it?? Why Paki need work carwash and american not??? Why Paki can't sit couch to dial order Pizzahut and american can?? Why Paki can't marry wife and sex her all night and american can??? Why american have money and Paki no money??
I want wife, soft coach, 42" tv, pizzaline, be able eat Burger king, fuck with wife on coach!! why not can I do it?? Thank Microsoft it is now posible!!!! Thank you!!! I know windows they pay me.
Mickey Mouse will have a SCREAMING ORGASM when he gets his job back from India.
Yet another awful blow has struck what's left of the *BSD community, as a soon-to-be-released report by an independent commission doing a year-long study concludes: *BSD is dead and mummified. Here are some of the commission's findings:
Fact: the *BSDs have balkanized yet again. There are now no less than twelve separate, competing *BSD projects, each of which has introduced fundamental incompatibilities with the other *BSDs, and frequently with Unix standards. Average number of developers in each project: fewer than five. Average number of users per project: there are no definitive numbers, but reports show that all projects are on the decline.
Fact: Apple is quietly changing the base kernel for OS X from *BSD to Linux. Insiders report that Apple's technical leadership has grown tired of the licensing battles and is seeking a more modern license; they find Linux's license more appealing. Many Apple technology experts -- from OS developers all the way up to Steve Jobs -- find Linux to be a more advanced OS, which will enable Apple to release a more mature product. The frequent hallway arguments and fistfights among the *BSD developers Apple has hired has also contributed to the decision.
Fact: XFree86 is dropping support for *BSD. The remaining core group believes that the *BSDs have strayed too far from Unix standards and have become too difficult to support along with Linux and Solaris x86. "It's too much trouble," said one anonymous developer. "If they want to make their own standards, let them doing the porting for us."
Fact: Many user-level applications will no longer work under *BSD, and no one is working to change this. The GIMP, a Photoshop-like application, has not worked at all under *BSD since version 1.1 (sorry, too much trouble for such a small base, developers have said). OpenOffice, a Microsoft Office clone, has never worked under *BSD and never will. ("Why would we bother?" said developer Steven Andrews, an OpenOffice team lead.)
Fact: servers running OpenBSD, which claims to focus on security, are frequently compromised. According to Jim Markham, editor of the online security forum SecurityWatch, the few OpenBSD servers that exist on the internet have become a joke among the hacker community. "They make a game out of it," he says. "(OpenBSD leader) Theo [de Raadt] will scramble to make a new patch to fix one problem, and they've already compromised a bunch of boxes with a different exploit."
Fact: NetBSD, which claims to focus on portability (whatever that is supposed to mean), is slow, and cannot take advantage of multiple CPUs. "That about drove the last nail in the coffin for BSD use here," said Michael Curry, CTO of Amazon.com. "We took our NetBSD boxes out to the backyard and shot them in the head. We're much happier running Linux."
Fact: There are almost no FreeBSD developers left, and its use, according to Netcraft, is down to a sadly crippled
Fact: DragonflyBSD, yet another offshoot of the beleaguered FreeBSD "project", is already collapsing under the weight of internal power struggles and in-fighting. "They haven't done a single decent release," notes Mark Baron, an industry watcher and columnist. "Their mailing lists read like an online version of a Jerry Springer episode, complete with food fights, swearing, name-calling, and chair-throwing." Netcraft reports that DragonflyBSD is run on exactly 0% of internet servers.
With these incontroverible facts staring (what's left of) the *BSD community in the face, they can only draw one conclusion: *BSD is dead and mummified.
There are a _ton_ of well qualified people out of work as a result of nothing more than circumstance. Those people could easily be doing your job much better than you and your co-conspirator. I hope you sweat bullets and feel sick about what you are doing. Your going to get so fired when (not if) your employer finds out about this. Have fun bullshitting your way through meetings, wondering how your job gets done. You should save all the money you make from this job, so that when you're canned and out of work for more than 5 years; you might have a shot at being able to feed yourself.
lard ass
Yeah but we're pretty good at making napalm and Agent Orange, you char-skinned, birth defect-ridden GOOK!!!!!!
You're forgetting something -- foreigners aren't allowed to work in India.
Don't you know free-trade only works in one direction?
When the jobs in agriculture started disappearing, people were told to retrain and get jobs in manufacturing. When the textile and manufacturing jobs were being sent overseas, we were told to reeducate ourselves and move up the food chain to knowledge work. If you'd read the article (either time it was posted), the looming question that nobody can answer is, *what comes after knowledge?* The author waved his hands, and like you, said *oh, something else*.
How about modding? America can become the "Modding Center of the World." We'll mod all those overseas products like computers and gutless cars and home appliances. It'll be a nation of spoilers and neon.
Or,hmmm...I have it: meta-knowledge. All the American IT workers can sit and comment on other people's knowledge work, tie in political and moral concepts, and the comments that everyone likes will float to the foreground. A large archive of meta-knowledge will build up.
How this is different from what American IT workers currently do with their time, is beyond me.
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