Look Who's Going Offshore: Tech startups are heading overseas

Business Week ^ | May 17, 2004 | Spencer E. Ante with Robert D. Hof

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ping

[Southack]

So where are the VC "successes" offshore?

Pause...

Class. Class. Anyone?

AT&T Wireless Self-Destructs [Offshore IT Outsourcing Disaster Kills Company]

[stainlessbanner]

Ozguc may pay the price for letting someone take his idea offshore and run it in the ground.

[ECM]

Wow. I'm not anti-offshoring, per se, but this is just stupid on so many levels.

[ikka]

IS this the same China that has no copyright protection or intellectual property protection? Sometimes VCs can be such morons.

[sarcasm]

Now, India's becoming world's IT lab

[Southack]

BWAAAA Ha Ha! What's hilarious is that some people will actually believe that hiring some grunts in mudholes is doing cutting edge "research!"

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What's hilarious is that some people will actually believe that hiring some grunts in mudholes

Indians probably say the same about Alabama.

[Southack]

Call me when they build rocket motors that match what Boeing is building here in Alabama. Shoot, call me when they can build a simple SUV as well as Mercedes does in Alabama.

[Rockitz]

Clarification:

The Boeing Delta IV's RS-68 rocket engine is manufactured in Canoga Park, CA by Boeing Rocketdyne.

The Boeing Delta IV's GEM-60 strap-on solid rocket motors are manufactured in Clearfield, Utah by Alliant Techsystems.

The Delta IV launch vehicle is assembled in Decatur, AL

[neutrino]

Thanks for the ping, Sarcasm!

The startup ventures are the core of the United States economy. They are a major source of new employment, and an important part element in the growth of the overall economy.

They develop new methods, new processes - they are the source of numerous inventions.

And now this is all going away. So that people can buy more cheap trinkets at Great Wall Mart.

If you want on or off my offshoring ping list, please FReepmail me!

[XBob]

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[XBob]

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[VOA]

Shoot, call me when they can build a simple SUV as well as Mercedes does in Alabama.

I'm afraid some Boeing line workers in places like Wichita, KS wish
their execs had taken the call concerning Airbus.

Eventually the same sort of threats will emerge from India and China.
I just hope we all have gone to our rewards before that!

[Southack]

DAILY Photo by Gary Cosby Jr.
Exhaust billowed at the launch pad Wednesday night as the Alabama-built Delta IV left Earth for a 37-minute flight to place a French communications satellite into successful orbit.

[Southack]

20 February 2001
Open the blast doors: Boeing's Huntsville missile silo nears completion
Alabama defense project leads the way for National Missile Defense Research

Huntsville is part of missile defense in a big way.

A wide array of information is needed by Boeing when it comes to National Missile Defense. Engineers need to know what amount of stress the silo's concrete structure can withstand, and how silo doors will behave in sub-zero conditions.

"We are going to have a special shroud built around the top of the silo, and then lower the temperatures to at least 30 degrees below zero," said Edwards. "That's just to test the doors. It sounds funny that we would do that in Alabama, but it's actually cheaper than flying them to the Artic or Alaska somewhere."

The silo is a construction process test and evaluation area more than anything else, Edwards said.

Boeing needed to know how to build the silo and what challenges it would face by digging a 90-foot hole in the ground. The Huntsville silo showed the NMD team what is required to build the unique silos.

Boeing started design work on the project in 1998. In August 1999, it broke ground for the silo, and within the next week the silo should be operational, Edwards said.

"It's been a very fast paced program," he said.

The $3-million test silo is part of the $13 billion National Missile Defense program, for which Boeing is the lead contractor. About 70 percent of all NMD work is performed in Huntsville, and Boeing has about 1,300 employees and contractors supporting the project.

[Southack]

Wednesday, 28 March, 2001, 11:21 GMT 12:21 UK

Indian satellite launch fails

India is hoping to match other rockets like Ariane

A rocket launch in India which was to open up a new phase in the country's space programme has failed.

The first test launch of a geostationary satellite launch vehicle was aborted after a fire broke out shortly after its Russian engines were ignited. The launch has now been postponed indefinitely.

[Southack]

Computerworld 3/19/01

Lee Copeland Gladwin, Computerworld

Ford Motor Co.'s accounts payable processing unit in India typically loses power three or four times each day. On top of that, it's difficult to establish a telephone connection there. Meanwhile, employee turnover for IT staff in this region is an eye-popping 30% per year.

[oceanview]

give it time. money + engineers = successful tech companies. there will be failures, bu in time, it will happen. will it happen in the US, who is going to do it here, all the law school graduates we are turning out?