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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (151560)	1/17/2003 12:25:05 AM
From: hmbsandman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

I've heard of projects moving wholesale to India, but I've never heard of entire IT departments being replaced by Indians. I think if people discriminate on anything other that merit, they eventually get bit in the behind, one way or the other. I do have some anecdotes from the Raging 90s which put things in perspective BTW. I think the wholesale greed which infected so many IT workers back then badly backfired. SC

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (151560)	1/17/2003 12:32:13 AM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 164684

It appears to me to be a cost issue. All through the late 1990s, while all the headlines said there was a big shortage of IT workers, the headlines should have really read that there was a big shortage of young IT workers with less than 10 or 12 yrs experience and salaries demands to match. There's a young French couple next door and they work their butts off. They have a couple more years before they'll get permanent residency status, and since they need to stay employed to get it, i suspect their employers know this.