[Seajay]

There is some merit to your ironic argument, but ...

Cost is a factor, but another major factor in the outsourcing to India movement is that there are few Ameicans who are capable of producing quality software. Software development is not easy, has a long learning curve, requires painstaking attention to detail and is very frustrating. These are qualities that graduates of USA institutions simply do not possess.

How many of us know high school students who were good at playing games on the computer and surfing the Web, went to college majoring in CS at the insistence of parents and high school counslers and then found out what they were getting into and swtitched majors to "Business"?????

[looscnnn]

"another major factor in the outsourcing to India movement is that there are few Ameicans who are capable of producing quality software."

That does not explain why IBM would get rid of the domestic programmers and move programming to India, or are you saying that they were not producing quality software? What makes you think that an Indian programmer will do better? Are you saying that they are better at long learning curves and have better attention to detail?

What about all those that went to college and changed to CS because they liked computers? What about all those that went to college for CS and completed it? You talk about a minority of students that went for one thing and changed majors, how many students do this in general while attending college?

[blowfish]

> but another major factor in the outsourcing to India movement is that there are few Ameicans who are capable of producing quality software.

This is flat-out nonsense.
Companies like IBM are *laying off* engineers so that they can more the jobs overseas and (they hope) save $$$. Are you saying all these laid-off engineers are worse than their Indian counterparts? They were apparently good enough to work at IBM...