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IBM Snags Leading Indian Outsourcing Firm
theodp writes "In one of the biggest foreign acquisitions in India in the past few years, according to ZDNet, IBM will pay an estimated $150-$200 million to acquire Daksh, India's third-largest back-office services company. The deal will give IBM access to privately held Daksh's 6,000 employees, who mainly offer call center services to 13 clients, including Amazon.com."
A guy from Microsoft, a guy from Apple, and a guy from Sun are at a conference. During a break they all go to the restroom to take a leak.
After they finish, the Microsoft guy washes his hands, takes a whole bunch of paper towels and dries his hands REALLY well. He turns to the others and says,
"At Microsoft, we have to be thorough."
The Apple guy then goes to wash his hands and takes a single paper towel and dries his hands perfectly with it. He smugly says,
"At Apple, we have to be thorough AND efficient."
The Sun guy just walks straight out the door without even washing.
"At Sun, we don't piss on our hands."
If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
In related news, Daksh announced that it would be closing its domestic operations and laying off 5,500 Indian workers, in favor of opening offices overseas, in the developing world. Offices in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), Pitcairn Island (South Pacific), Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) and Hickory-Flat (Mississippi, USA) are planned.
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IBM Snags Leading Indian Outsourcing Firm
Just don't call it Leading INDian OutSourcing" and everything will be fine.
So now that IBM has bought them...is it still considered outsourcing?
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I hear the voices of 6,000 worried Indians, afraid that their jobs might be sent to the US because they were bought out by an American company.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
"We're not 'outsourcing', they are an internal company."
Even though the actual results WRT jobs/people will still be the same.
P.S. No hyphen in Hickory Flat.
Secessionistically, Joe Bob Bubba Earl Senior VP for Information Technology
"Obviously, I'm not an IBM computer any more than I'm an ashtray" (Bob Dylan)
He was probably confused because it's spelled "waive".
He was wondering if you wanted to take them surfing or what.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Perhaps if you had told him you wanted to waive those options he would have understood you. The silent i makes a big differnce in pronunciation.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
That's cause RedHat sucks.
Real men roll their own distro and fab their own processors.
Fear me, I am He-Nerd
When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight.
The thin one says: "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me -- guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass."
The fat one replies: "Well, *I* hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!"
See, IBM has had a long tradition of too many chiefs, not enough err... Indians.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff