Yes, I work in the IT field and all my coworkers have this vaguely racist and definitely naive notion that somehow Indians are just "worker bees" and could never actually innovate or have the drive to form their own prime-contracting companies. What will actually happen if the pace of outsourcing continues to accelerate, is that clients will just figure, "heck, all the work is going to be done in Indian anyhow, let's go with an Indian prime contractor" That would be even cheaper than going with an American IT company that is outsourcing.
You people are all brain dead. Clinton did this because he was the most right-wing, "neoconservative" democrat ever. He was a "democrat" in name only. Someone like FDR or even JFK would never have approved of an H1B-like program on this scale. The republicans gained control of Congress in 94 and expanded the H1B program. If Clinton had vetoed it he would have probably been overriden by Congress.
actually...now that I think about it I guess that volume seems reasonable...according to this article they can handle up to 400 million calls in one day, which is, what, every adult in the country making 2 long distance calls in a day? I guess it could happen. 494 billion rows would be a few years of that data.
Yes agree, strange. This list is clearly crap...why when you search for transaction volume (of an OLTP system) does the Korean "Internet Auction Co" come up while Ebay doesn't? Could they actually be bigger than Ebay? Have more transaction volume? No way, jose. Also they exclude mainframes where most of the large OLTP stuff is happening...think banks and people using their ATM cards. Even the phone companies still use mainframes for the transaction processing...notice AT&T has a shockingly huge data warehouse (what could they possibly be storing in those 494 billion rows? have that many long distance calls even been placed in the history of the world between all long distance telephone co.s?) but are not anywhere on the transactional rankings.
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Yes, I work in the IT field and all my coworkers have this vaguely racist and definitely naive notion that somehow Indians are just "worker bees" and could never actually innovate or have the drive to form their own prime-contracting companies. What will actually happen if the pace of outsourcing continues to accelerate, is that clients will just figure, "heck, all the work is going to be done in Indian anyhow, let's go with an Indian prime contractor" That would be even cheaper than going with an American IT company that is outsourcing.
You people are all brain dead. Clinton did this because he was the most right-wing, "neoconservative" democrat ever. He was a "democrat" in name only. Someone like FDR or even JFK would never have approved of an H1B-like program on this scale. The republicans gained control of Congress in 94 and expanded the H1B program. If Clinton had vetoed it he would have probably been overriden by Congress.
actually...now that I think about it I guess that volume seems reasonable...according to this article they can handle up to 400 million calls in one day, which is, what, every adult in the country making 2 long distance calls in a day? I guess it could happen. 494 billion rows would be a few years of that data.
Yes agree, strange. This list is clearly crap...why when you search for transaction volume (of an OLTP system) does the Korean "Internet Auction Co" come up while Ebay doesn't? Could they actually be bigger than Ebay? Have more transaction volume? No way, jose.
Also they exclude mainframes where most of the large OLTP stuff is happening...think banks and people using their ATM cards. Even the phone companies still use mainframes for the transaction processing...notice AT&T has a shockingly huge data warehouse (what could they possibly be storing in those 494 billion rows? have that many long distance calls even been placed in the history of the world between all long distance telephone co.s?) but are not anywhere on the transactional rankings.
saw something like this at the London Architecture Association (avant-garde architecture school) in 1997.