Though I'm as ready as the next guy to assign deviousness to IBM, in this case it isn't involving stimulus money. It's simply a way for US Govt accounts to open problems and speak to a US citizen. It's surprising how much is not in the US, and right now if a Govt customer opens a PMR, and happens to get a non-US citizen, they have to close the pmr. MA
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Dave Kopischke < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:49:56 -0400, Harry Wahl wrote: > > >I think this is being misconstrued. > > > > And misconstrued in making this a border bash. The original move was to > eliminate jobs in one country in favor of labor prices in another > (according to > the stories I read). Now that the direction is reversed, it's bad ??? Not > worthy > of discussion ??? > > Regardless of the direction, I think it's an interesting situation. I doubt > we'll > ever know the real reasoning behind it. Maybe stimulus money grabbing ??? > Maybe protecting corporate data within the laws of the company's resident > country ??? Maybe marketing ??? Valid cases can probably be made for each > of these and more. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
