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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!cga66
  2. From: cga66@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.v.kauffold)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
  4. Subject: Re: SE going offshore?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.173630.25882@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 17:36:30 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: cbnewse.1992Nov16.173630.25882
  8. References: <1992Nov13.142754.12335@ornl.gov>
  9. Organization: AT&T
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  11.  
  12. From article <1992Nov13.142754.12335@ornl.gov>, by jov@styx.ornl.gov (Judd Jones):
  13. > His basic argument is that there are plenty of clever, well-trained
  14. > people in developing countries willing to work for less than their
  15. > US-based competitors. One example is the HP software shop in Bombay.
  16. > It will be economically inevitable that this labor-intensive
  17. > industry will be exported to places where labor is cheap.
  18.  
  19. Read Yourdon, _Decline and Fall of The American Programmer_ for a first-
  20. hand view of India's developing software industry.  He does not share
  21. the view that cheapness of labor is the only factor, but he does issue
  22. a wake-up call.
  23.  
  24. Interesting book, anyway.
  25.  
  26. Pat Kauffold
  27. AT&T Bell Labs
  28.