On 19 Oct 2006 12:16:52 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >There may be a new country in the mix. I just heard that a Chicago >area company has outsourced to ISRaeL. I don't know if this is a one >time occurrence or a few (or more).
In today's world things are fuzzier than that. You can outsource any percentage of your data - just as a car can be German-US-Canadian-Japanese with parts from a dozen other countries, so can software. Companies have outsourced data entry to poor countries for a long time. Simple programming has been done on site, and as skills develop, the percentage being done remotely goes up. A co-worker moved to Belize - and continued working in his old job remotely. Data are fungible, we don't know where the bits come from. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
