[searchandrecovery]

I think the long-term threat of offshoring s/w development is overstated. Yea, America will shed some jobs (and it will hurt), but many of these experiments will crash and burn. Why? There's something unique and special about being able to walk down the hall and talk to a developer whose work you are paying for. Work done 6,000(?) miles away, with only phone access (or, heaven forbid, get on a 747 and fly 15 hours), in a third-world country with a different culture, graduating from colleges you know nothing about, is RISKY. Plus, there's that whole problematic software as a strategic asset thing.

Call centers, radiologic analysis, financial analysis, tax prep - yea, many jobs at risk, but not all. Most cubicle-dwelling jobs in America - I think the risk is overstated. Word.

[Euro-American Scum]

Work done 6,000(?) miles away, with only phone access (or, heaven forbid, get on a 747 and fly 15 hours), in a third-world country with a different culture, graduating from colleges you know nothing about, is RISKY. Plus, there's that whole problematic software as a strategic asset thing.

Ah, but they're not graduating from foreign universities. At least not all of them. Visit your local neighborhood university one of these days, and take a walk through the quad of an engineering or computer science department, and tell me if you hear the English language spoken.

Those cheap third world tech workers are being educated right here, underwritten by either their government or our own, or a combination of both.

[LisaMalia]

Call centers, radiologic analysis, financial analysis, tax prep - yea, many jobs at risk, but not all. Most cubicle-dwelling jobs in America - I think the risk is overstated.

Maybe you haven't worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, etc...or maybe you are one.. All they are seeing now is the bottom line, their own survival, and making sure their mega bonuses stay intact.

I don't think this is a risk that is being overstated, I think it is a dangerous practice that is spiraling out of control. SOMETHING needs to be done about this, and fast.