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Growth in Indian Offshoring Slowing

quantumstream writes "CNN/Money is reporting that high wages are causing some software companies to look to other countries for outsourcing, including Eastern Europe and several other SE Asian countries. Gartner Research believes a drop of 45% in India's share could happen in the next two years. Is this the beginning of the end of the dominance of India in the tech offshoring market?"

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  1. Unionize by wpiman · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I can see it now- labor unions in India are going to be picketing about how those dirty Eastern Europeans are stealing Indian jobs.

    What goes around comes around I guess.

  2. Re:So... by cioxx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Neo-liberal voodoo economics, to be more precise.

  3. Re:They still work damn cheap... by superpulpsicle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dude if you don't want to read my posts just skip it. Stop being a fucking Anonymous grammar teacher when you can't even spell yourself.

  4. Re:That's the effect of a global economy. by klept · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What you call "bitching" is free speech. And free speech can be the beginning of change. Nice of you to stick up for all those helpless rich people. I'm sure they need it. Where can you can you buy clothes that aren't imported? Like many things today in this country, I don't think we have a choice anymore.

  5. Re:Stop looking down at Indians by David+Off · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Regarding accent I just can not take it that it is incomprehensible.

    Try calling Citibank - their Indian call center sucks.

  6. Sheesh... A Little Teenage Angst? by Black-Man · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Man... get a grip. And instead of your whining about it, how about a solution to it? Yeah... I didn't think so.

  7. Re:That's the effect of a global economy. by Vicissidude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not saying America doesn't have terrible wealth inequality, just that people have a tendancy to make up stats in this area :-)

    Very cute, jerkoff. You find one source from seven years ago that shows I'm off by 6% and you think you've got me. Well, despite your assertion otherwise, I didn't make this shit up. Here's the proof from more than your one source.

    Also, there is a very interesting Stanford study that shows that these numbers massively overstate the wealth of the richest Americans because they are gross numbers. Bill Gates has $26bn of Microsoft stock. *But*, if he sold it he'd have to pay capital gains taxes.

    Screw that. If everyone, everywhere cashed out at the same time, then they would all have to pay taxes as well. Billy G would still be the pimpinest mofo on the block.

    Wealth is wealth, pre-tax or post-tax. No one cares what these people have after taxes. I'm sure you'd love to dispute that, but frankly, I don't give a shit.

    Not that he would sell all his Microsoft shares and give up control of his company. As it stands now, Gates is the center of the computer industry. He is more wealthy than whole nations. He exerts an inordinate amount of power due to that wealth and position. He has the ear of senators, representatives, the president, and foreign governments. Just recently, the head of Vietnam stopped by Microsoft in Redmond before going to the White House. And in a few weeks, the head of China will also stop by Seattle before heading to DC. If all these people want to talk to Gates before talking to Bush, then that certainly makes me wonder who is the most powerful man in the world.

  8. Re:So... by v00d00420 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In 2005 a... Anyone? anyone?... Moron, posted a... really... Anyone? Anyone?... Annoying piece of... Anyone? Anyone? something-h-i-t post with lot of idiot pauses.