Re: OT: IBM exports 4730 programming jobs from US
From: Dan Pop (Dan.Pop_at_cern.ch)
Date: 12/16/03
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Date: 16 Dec 2003 16:02:22 GMT
In <christian.bau-88A125.09361716122003@slb-newsm1.svr.pol.co.uk> Christian Bau <christian.bau@cbau.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>In article <MPG.1a48298e67227d57989a62@news.verizon.net>,
> Richard <rh310@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just heard on NPR's "Nightly Business Report" that IBM shares fell on
>> the announcement that IBM is exporting 4730 programming jobs from the
>> US to India and China.
>>
>> I see the handwriting on the wall, and it spells: M-c-D-O-N-A-L-D-S.
>
>You mean McDonald's will open restaurants in India and China for the
>programmers there?
>
>There are companies already that specialise on repairing bodged
>outsourced jobs. Trying to fix code that is so badly broken that it
>cannot possibly have been tried out (I don't say untested, I say
>compiled and not even tried out).
>
>I'm just curious if IBM will need fewer or more than 4730 people to fix
>all the problems they will get.
I'm willing to bet IBM can find 4730 first class programmers in India and
China together, if they try hard enough.
Dan
-- Dan Pop DESY Zeuthen, RZ group Email: Dan.Pop@ifh.de
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