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To: Bill who wrote (28539)	9/22/2003 6:17:18 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Even the financial shows like Lou Dobbs just last week had an analyst on who stated that the tech companies who think they can still sell products at US price points after they destroy their own customer base and send it offshore are sadly mistaken. In my case being in management I am still employed and maybe I might even win on a personal level with this shift. But it sure seems to me like a very narcisisstic attitude these CEOs and CIOs have towards their own labor force to do this. I think a lot of management feels they lack control of complex engineering matters and they wish the challenge would go away, and this is a way to make it go away. I remember once having a conversation with a guy who you probably know from SI about this. I really got the sense, from him that I sense all around me now. He has a financial focus and he resents engineering driving the show. He wants engineering to be a commodity and cheap, deep inside he wants to convince himself that engineering is a commodity. Whenever I discuss the FACT (which I know to be true) that Oracle offshored their market away he gets defensive? Why? Who the hell cares about Larry and oracle anyway? Not even me and I made a whole career out of the company. The reason this guy refuses to accept what offshoring has done to the US economies and to some companies like Oracle is because he wants to believe offshoring can cure the problem of expensive difficult engineers on the books. As a VC he can simply fund an idea and go to the cheapest provider and build a great company with he, and a small number of cohorts in charge with no hassles from engineering whatsoever! He can be a king, and all those overpaid engineers will just go away, more money for him! Thats what he thinks. Business doesn't work that way as you know.