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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (2201)	4/19/2002 2:56:17 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2339

* warning - politically incorrect * About a year ago I heard i2 had plans to move a substantial amt of development positions to india. You can see this on monster.com, i2 posts job openings for Bangalore. Oracle and some others have offshore development in india so this is a common practice these days for cost cutting. The problem is, real innovation just doesn't seem to come out of these foreign satellites. Its not that the staff is any less qualified, but the climate does not foster innovation for a number of reasons- one thing, there aren't any flagship customers ie Dell, Cisco willing to "bet the farm" on some new tech- you are operating in a vacuum. This situation wrt manugistics and i2 imo is directly related at least in part to this offshore R&D mentality that i2 has. Manugistics, with an American CEO is killing i2's butt on the creativity side. Manugistics is having scalability problems at this point! I guarantee that if i2 mktg and senior development staff had their eye on the ball i2 would have plenty of momentum now. Offshore cost cutting is for huge companies with large maintenance expenditures. L