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Brian Donaldson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:24:08 -0400
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If they will feed me curry and chapatis 3 times a day for the rest of my
life, I'll go work for them.....



On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:48:08 -0400, Johnson, Tracy
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>This caused me to recall a slashdot article from this Friday,
>where India is oncerned that outsourcing might be outsourced
>from India:
>
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?
sid=03/06/06/1226232&mode=thread&tid=98&tid=99
>
>Quote from article:
>
>'It's hard to know where it will all end. Is
>there a country where people will work for free?'
>
>
>BT
>TZ=H1B5:30H1B
>
>
>Tracy Johnson
>MSI Schaevitz Sensors
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brighter View [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 8:32 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [HP3000-L] Move Migration work to India ?
>>
>>
>>  I feel that moving the Migration work to India would be a good choice
>> for companies because many have started doing that.
>>
>> India has a low cost labour but at the same time the resources work
>> more than 10 hours a day for a 8 hour billing...
>>
>> Also businesses are critical of staying back with current HP3000
>> systems. .NET wave is very hot in India and across the world and the
>> only way you can get cheap resources to migrate out of MPE to
>> Windows/.NET - not to forget on schedule too... can be India.
>>
>> But to add here Companies must have Penalty Clause added if the so
>> called SEI CMM 5 level Companies of India cannot deliver on schedule
>> and with quality.
>>
>> US companies need to put Tough Managers who oversee this effort to do
>> significant cost savings and improve the bottom line for the
>> companies.
>>
>> With the ailing US economy ( just Picking up ), such kind of mundane
>> work must be transferred either to India/ China and afterall we all
>> know that they are Software Specialists ( with poor communication and
>> behavioural skills ). If companies can improve their bottomlines in
>> this way and then focus on Topline strategy to make the business grow
>> - the demand will pick up in IT too.
>>
>> After all, we all are old and tired working in MPE and there is pretty
>> cool stuff in market.
>>
>> BTW if anyone wants to know companies in India doing migration work..
>> email me..
>>
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