To: miraje who wrote (3712 ) 2/23/2004 6:23:38 PM From: Lizzie Tudor Read Replies (1) | Respond to what a bunch of republican claptrap. It is the highest level, most value add engineering positions going offshore, in the NEW industries created in the US, often with research paid for by US taxpayers via the university system. Fortunately Time and other mass media is picking up on this, and all this republican BS about "tough love for workers, you need to modernize" is going out the window."Never mind that at the same time new jobs opened up at the plants where these mechanical contraptions are being manufactured. There are now people making these new trucks, administering their various paperwork, guarding the plants and so forth, with new jobs, jobs that didn't exist before." Workers, professor Machan insists, must re-educate themselves for the new jobs of a changing economy. Rosen Sharma is sure about one thing. His nine-month-old company, Solidcore, a start-up that makes backup security systems for computers, could not survive without outsourcing. By lowering his development costs, the 18 engineers who work for him in India for as little as one-fourth the salary of their American counterparts allow him to spend money on 13 senior managers, engineers and marketing people in Silicon Valley. If he doesn't outsource, in fact, the venture capitalists who fund start-ups like his won't give him a nickel. Sharma's Indian-American team, tethered by a broadband connection, gets his product in front of customers faster and cheaper. "As a business, you have to stay competitive," he says. "If we don't do it, our competitors will, and they're going to blow us away." time.com
