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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (46547)	5/10/2001 11:48:35 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) of 70976

Software Engineers in India and China are every bit as good as our domestic versions. I am not a software engineer but I was/am an IC design engineer that has had to train counter parts from other countries as we shifted IC R&D to their country for tax considerations. We'd invent it then ship the product line to Singapore and then get preferential tax treatment for sending them jobs. Over the 20 years I did this, the job level transfered went from assembly & test (pure manual labor) to R&D IC design engineer. As of late 1998, there was NO COMPETITION between top US educated R&D engineers and those in Singapore for designing ICs but that might have been the level of mentoring available and they might have closed the gap already. They were well matched for manufacturing engineering as they had many years experience and developed their own set of mentors to train others. For software engineers, one of my best friends is one and he was one of those "top 100 students" in all of India and he came over here for better opportunity. They have some darned good ones over there, but I still think the best come here as there is more to work with here. The "critical mass of talent" that exists in the Silicon Valley is concentrated here for a very real reason. With new technology that they will invent, perhaps holographic teleconferencing, this concentration of talent might be a thing of the past in 50 years. It actually makes me think investment in Incline Village, NV and other nice places in low tax states will pay off.... On a statistical basis, I'd expect China and India to turn out more brilliant minds than the US in the years ahead and they will be even more competition as their own industries grow. It will be interesting to see if the US will still lead in 50 years? Perhaps it will be with biotechnology and quantum or bio computing? Kirk

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