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To: fedhead who wrote (149978)	11/12/2002 12:32:20 AM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

>>These programming jobs are going overseas.<< Yup, I agree.

To: fedhead who wrote (149978)	11/12/2002 9:42:33 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

When the bear ends, and the Iraqi war is over I'll buy San Diego based Websense (WBSN) again. >>While analysts and investors were prodding companies to get bigger and go after the large, but unproven, consumer market, Websense stayed relatively small, focusing on Web filtering for large companies. Instead of spending its IPO war chest of $72 million, Websense has hoarded the money and seen its cash reserves balloon to $128 million, prompting one financial analyst to question whether Websense was a bank instead of a software company.<< signonsandiego.com

To: fedhead who wrote (149978)	11/12/2002 3:51:24 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

>>NEW DELHI, India -- Hoping to stave off a rise in the popularity of free, open-source software, Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday announced a $400 million investment in India to expand the company's operations and boost computer literacy. The three-year initiative - part philanthropy, part business boost - would seek to entrench products of the world's dominant software company in schools as well as among India's stable of talented programmers.<< seattlepi.nwsource.com

To: fedhead who wrote (149978)	11/14/2002 9:11:57 AM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

>>BANGALORE, India -- Bill Gates met 100 chief executives and 2,500 software developers in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, where the Microsoft chairman was treated like a rock star. "Bill Gates Live!" said the invitation to a speech yesterday by the world's richest man at the campus of Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's second-biggest software exporter. "Seeing him was like a dream come true, he's like an icon to us," said Rakesh Kumar, an Infosys code-writer.<< seattlepi.nwsource.com