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Dan,

there will indeed always be competition. And, nobody is challenging, asPete pointed out, this chap's technical or business acumen. And, thesereally aren't the points of this discourse and I think you know it.


Let's get back to the issue at hand:

The facts remain that off shore companies are continuing to make majorinroads in the N.American marketplace, taking jobs/work away from folkshere an sending it offshore. People here are losing their livelihoods tooff shore. Do we really want to INVITE this to continue? Do we reallywant to raise on a pedistal and place in management, people who are totallyintent on ruining our financial way of life? There's a lot of people thatreally don't think so.

For the CBOD to sanction a board candidate who's business purpose in lifeis to take away our livelihoods and those of our fellow iSeries'ers and totake it not only from us, but totally out of country and continent (I won'tgo into the GDP - econometric issues), frankly just says to a lot of usthat the CBOD is out of touch with the membership base and what's going onin the IT economics.

And let's make this point very clear. COMMON America is NOT a globalorganization. It attracts members and attendees from the global realm, butit's target market and membership base is clearly N.American based.

So, Dan, since COMMON, Bev, Wayne, et al, are so interested in savingmoney...let's out source the whole board to Bombay and let some group inthe Punjab run the rest of the show... It obviously isn't an issue withthe board, so, hell, lead the way...start with your jobs. I submit thatdoing so will make the conference cheaper, ergo more attendees, will makemembership fees cheaper and we may actually get something for ourmemberships besides the right to pay to go to a conference and be assessnuisance fines for not staying at costly conference housing.

And, don't allow this discourse to get sidetracked by misplaced thoughtsand discourse about xenophobia. This has nothing to do with nationalidentities, it's a purely business issue. This isn't a personality issue,it's a business one. It's important that our businesses here stay asviable concerns.

So, Dan, et al, it's been nice having you folks as board members, and we'rereally sad to see you go, but it's cheaper to run things from Bombay...andwe're all gonna miss Cherese, Jane and Maria....but Dan, you're all forcompetition and it's cheaper to run things in India... Just please makesure whomever calls me from membership services can actually speak andunderstand English...

Frankly, I happen to LIKE COMMON and think it serves a very usefulpurpose. I don't think this is going to benefit our industry in the least.


Don in DC

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At 08:54 AM 6/8/2006 -0500, you wrote:

Don,

There will always be competition. It isn't really competetion between
American programmers and Indian programmers; it's competition between one
programmer and another programmer. You have the advantage of being close to
your customers. Another may have the advantage of being cheap.

What other attibutes do you have to make your customers prefer you? What are
you doing to stay ahead of the technology curve?

Dan