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To: Les H who wrote (9171)	2/24/2003 10:49:19 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

U.N. Urges More Time for California Governor (2003-02-23) -- In the face of a growing movement to recall California Governor Gray Davis, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged the state's voters to give Mr. Davis more time. California citizens outraged at the financial mismanagement, which has the state $35 billion in debt and planning service cuts and tax increases, are working to gather the 897,158 signatures required to force a recall vote. But Mr. Annan said United Nations members believe California's accounting history should be audited for several months first. "We must inspect the records," he said. "As long as Governor Davis is willing to comply with the audits even a little bit, we should allow time for auditing to work."

To: Les H who wrote (9171)	2/24/2003 2:11:37 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Sprint is a little late in this trend, everyone around here has already outsourced and believe it or not... we're starting to see the anticipated backlash of going too far. I know of a recent proposal that went to india and got a $700K USD bid, only $100K or so below what the bid would be to do it "in house". Thats the first sign of saturation, overbidding. And as anticipated, the quality suffers from the distance issues. Not trying to say they aren't as good as their US counterparts, they probably are... but distance is a difficult obstacle in requirements gathering. I think the eventual equilibrium will be the real ongoing maintenance IT - DBAs and networking admins and stuff will be overseas and business apps people kindof half and half. That is what Cisco does, they are the model for this after all. WRT ireland, I thought early on that the worst place to be wrt this IT outsourcing trend was in another country who is a satellite of US firms but not the cheapest. Its kindof like being in Mexico's shoes after the Nafta members determined it was even cheaper to go to china.