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What market are they adapting to? Do you see any Indian startup companies competing with them? Where is India Business Machines taking away all their contracts? Is Goldman Sachs and other major US companies going to sign contracts with Tata Global Services and turn over all their IT infrastructure to them?

At least US based manufacturers have a legitimate excuse: "hey, if we don't send washing machine plants to Mexico, washers made in China and Korea will flood the US market at lower prices and destroy us". Is that happening with IBM?

[_Jim]

"If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, so machines can learn," Mr. Gates responded, "that is worth 10 Microsofts."

THIS is where you people *might* be missing it ... technology as Mr. Gates referring to is capable of replacing those programmers currently employed overseas; the gold cup will go to the individual or individuals who create the program/the computer that writes its own code ...

Years ago, I worked at a telecom company that produced a product called ServiceBuilder that basically took the programmer out of the loop for mundane, routine changes when creating 'new call services' -

- no longer was code written to run on the 'switch', but rather a GUI had been produced that the customer could manipulate and do the 'programming' required for the new services ... no more need to know arcane switch 'script' language or request changes to switch SPC (stored program control) programs ...