Edward Jaffe wrote:
I have family all over Virginia. "Less developed" is probably a good
thing. It's a beautiful state. Lots of history.
There's something very wrong with and/or not being stated in the premise
here. They probably need people in the United States because things
aren't working out so well with an all-Indian work force.
the other possibility is that they have some specific outsourcing that may
include requirement for some legacy skills ... it may turn out to be cheaper to
hire people, that already have such experience, than try to train a new
generation ... especially if it is considered obsolete skills with
limited future applicability.
i've frequently claimed that a big boost for outsourcing was
as part of y2k remediation efforts ... when it wasn't so much a question
of pay scale ... but getting anybody at all. this was significantly
aggravated because it was happening during the big resource demand
growth in the internet bubble. once business relations were established
(during the y2k era), these business relations continued to exist
after y2k remediation completed.
some of the recent statistics ... that well over half of cs advanced
degrees from us institutions were to people not born in the US.
still the majority of the advanced degrees (from us institutions)
are to people not born in the us ... while at the same time the
number graduating from non-US institutions is dramatically increasing.
This is coupled with things like test scores for US highschool graduates
ranks near the bottom of all industrial nations.
misc. recent posts on the subject:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#6 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#34 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#35 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#52 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#68 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#13 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#20 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#21 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#15 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#18 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#32 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT
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