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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12608)	11/14/2003 9:34:41 PM
From: Jay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Re. Outsourcing Let's not forget that India is one of the most class conscious societies in the world. What this means is that anyone who is familiar with a keyboard and programming language is automatically relegated to a status similar to a tailor: "a person who knows how to operate a sewing machine is similar to someone who knows how to program a computer". Of course that attitude is prevalent in the US too, everywhere except at Microsoft and the Open-source movement. I worked recently with an offshore team with 8 youngsters who knew how to draw UML diagrams (of dubious worth) and bs with clients. Of those, only 1 really knew what problems lay ahead - he was low down in the hierarchy (a tailor) so he had liitle say in the midst of his "superiors". I don't know what the outcome was, but I don't think it was satisfactory. Unless the outsourcing is in a subsidiary - I expect the results to be bad. Is it no wonder that it is impossible to get a flight schedule from 2 cities from the sites of 2 of India's major airlines: indian-airlines.nic.in or jetairways.com