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To: Amy J who wrote (176447)	1/8/2004 7:21:50 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

hi AmyJ, The effort by the technology industry represents an early response to their growing concerns that U.S. lawmakers may clamp down on the practice, known as "offshoring," especially during an election year. How can lawmakers "clamp down on the practice"? These are US companies after all. Its not like we can deny access to our markets for our own companies. I doubt there is anything congress can or will do, this article is probably right they are concerned about elections- for good reason. "Americans who think that foreign workers are no match for U.S. workers in knowledge, skills and creativity are mistaken," the trade group's report said. I think this might be more acceptable if some companies who are large offshorers like Microsoft and Oracle didn't literally fall apart after they started engaging in the practice. Microsoft used to be a contender in R&D, now almost anyone can beat them. Personally I doubt longhorn ever ships, and by the time it does, nobody will care. I will be happy if windows XP 2003 service pack 2 makes it out by 2005 (if I am still on windows then). Thats fine if companies want to gain presence in asia but labelling US engineering as noncompetitive is falling on deaf ears imho. I suspect some of those congresspeople have called Dell technical support in Bangalore, just as a piece of anecdotal evidence.