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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (1592)	1/7/2004 9:48:23 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

this point might be valid if those companies that were engaging in the practice of staffing up offshore were delivering products like they used to when they worked here, but they ARE NOT. Microsoft is a shell of his former self. He can't deliver anything. Same with intel. The reason companies want to locate in asia is to establish presence in the asian market, not because the local staff is better. That is the problem with these companies' argument and everyone can see it. Microsoft used to be a stellar company, the best. Now it is a joke. R&D in india= pathetic. Maybe there are other issues but you have to look at this key difference between when they were here in 98 and now. A year or so ago you used to hear about "superior talent" offshore but these companies have totally backed off that and now it is all about cost.