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To: Amy J who wrote (176961)2/8/2004 11:38:11 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Microsoft does a huge amount of work offshore AmyJ, it doesn't matter if the VP is sitting in redmond, the issue is where is the core technology happening, and where is staff being added, today.

Microsoft is running silicon valley job fairs to staff up levels in Bangalore, they advertise on the radio. They are not running ads here to staff up in Redmond, at least I have never heard one. Only Bangalore.

But anyway who cares? The point, which is hard to deny since executives have made my case for me, is that software leadership is transitioning to Bangalore. Are you denying that to be the case? I personally think the only reason this is happening is due to cost. We have plenty of talent here, but what we don't have is an army of cheap coders. The US will never be the cheapest code producer. The reason open source mitigates this threat is that open source and specifically the GPL push the value add in software back to services and support (similar to the old IBM model from the 80s), as opposed to a business model where whoever produces the most proprietary lines of code for the cheapest wins. It is entirely possible that a US company can make a business out of open source DBMS that is competitive with Oracle's offshore R&D facility for example.
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