RE: Outsourcing

As I reflect on this outsourcing situation I try to think back to when it
really started. Was it not the headhunters in our business who wanted more
H1 Visas so they could make a better profit and then proceeded to look at
off shore as a direct source of more cheap labor. The "suits" did not
instigate it but merely are follow suit when it became in vogue. This was
followed by the IBM's, Dell, Bellsouth and big Daddy Gates who sent the 1st
tier customer support to the Asian Rim.  Maybe ultimately it's us techies
that were the straw on the camel's back by not keeping our talents high and
our prices reasonable. The medical world is now facing the same problem.
Greed is not good but try telling that to the 20 to 30 year set.

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc. 

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Subject: Re: Outsourcing

So if outsourcing continues, eventually there will only be mahogany row 
and the politicians left to outsource. And after they get the boot too, 
then Khrushchev will have been correct in that they (the commies (or 
whoever is the low bidder of the day)) will have sold us the rope we have 
used to hang ourselves...

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623-4299
Phone 419-479-5535
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