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To: fatty who wrote (16747)	2/5/2004 3:24:24 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) of 306849

and besides, who cares about SAT scores or PhDs. US executives never made a big deal out of these things before (in fact I have seen a resistance to hire PhDs at tech companies, for fear they are expensive and not "hands on"). US tech executives are looking for a way to make a case that offshore engineers are better, not equal to US engineers at less than half the cost, and they are grasping for the "PhD" angle. I don't believe it, and I think any call to the Dell call center proves the point to a tee. The Dell call center is a disaster. Oracle and Microsoft are also not the companies they were when they were located 100% locally. Now, this is a hard case to make because as companies get larger, the mythical man month comes into play and most mature companies have a hard time replicating their earlier success. However, Oracle cannot achieve the quality of smaller local rivals like Peoplesoft, despite Oracle's HUGE offshore R&D facility which can hire twice the team that Peoplesoft can. The US software market's answer to poor offshore quality coming from the largest software firms is open source. I suspect open source deals a fatal blow to msft and orcl this year.

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