On 1 Mar 2007 21:57:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Hewson) wrote: >what "our" and "we" ?!?!
I was responding to someone objecting to outsourcing for security reasons - I hope that my answer applies to a variable "we". In the example of defeating the USSR, it was the wealth of the West that won - not the cold war. In today's world, I believe our security is best served by remembering this and using a similar strategy. In this smaller world, a lot of our wealth is quite fungible. If one country sells oil to X instead of Y - Y doesn't suffer, it just buys oil from Z instead. Software doesn't care where it was created. If we buy our ERP from Germany and run it on computers made in the US - is it any better or worse than if our ERP was created in the US and our computers made in Taiwan? Some countries won't let us sell our product unless we buy from them as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
