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To: Amy J who wrote (16997)2/9/2004 10:14:01 AM
From: Lizzie TudorRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Why deny this? Whats the big deal? Everybody knows this is going on AmyJ.

Is it because the executives involved don't want to move to india, or they fear wage pressure (for themselves)?

As a nation the USA would be better off embracing open source and pushing these companies doing offshore R&D away. Microsoft is past its prime, and its products are 5x more costly than they should be. This money which is mostly US revenue is getting transferred to india in a brain and capital drain. License revenue based software should be discouraged imho.

BTW I haven't worked in database software in years. I do occasionally work with CRM software companies. If an open source database software company gets going locally I might do something there, just because it is time for an open source platform imho.

A Washington state union has obtained and made public a Microsoft Windows executive's presentation from last July which suggests that Microsoft move some of its software development work to India. The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers posted the slides to its Web site. "Bigger profits = Higher Quality at Lower Costs," reads one of Senior VP Brian Valentine's slides. "Pick something to move offshore today," says another.

India figures high in MS dev outsourcing plans
Valentine seems to envisage outsourcing to local companies (there is a reference to the Infosys Development Center in the presentation) as helping Microsoft move to "developing and marketing our technologies everywhere." This will not simply be low-grade work, as "outsourcing is not just for coding," but on the other hand there will be a component of this. Having substantial Indian operations would allow the total work day to be extended to "16-18 hours," and he dangles the prospect of code being checked into the Indian operation at close of play in Redmond, and returning tested the following morning.
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