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?'


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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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