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CowboyNeal
on from the rubbish-listers dept.
JamesD_UK writes "mod_perl 2.0.0 has been officially released into CPAN. Enhancements over mod_perl 1 include threads support and a perl interface to the Apache Portable Runtime. More details on the release can be found on CPAN."
MYTH #1: "The American university system allows us to pillage the intellectual capital of all these third-world nations. This is why they'll always be doing yesterday's technology--we stole all their best minds."
MYTH #2: "New, innovative companies won't start up overseas."
Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?
MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."
MYTH #4: "If you're truly working on something high-tech, today's high-tech, you'll never have to worry about your job moving."
Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."
MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."
"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."
if the server is running that
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don'tdowindows
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MYTH #2: "New, innovative companies won't start up overseas."
Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?
MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."
REALITY:
- GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
- HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
- HP Bangalore Research
- IBM India Research Center
- IBM China Research Center
- Microsoft Research Beijing
MYTH #4: "If you're truly working on something high-tech, today's high-tech, you'll never have to worry about your job moving."Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."
MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."
"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."
the slashdot effect will kill it