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Sales and Marketing are one in the same brainless job. Who do you think wrote the products that you've made a living on over the last 25 years? You stand more to lose than most by the offshoring trend.

Have you ever thought that maybe this trend will negatively affect the market thereby reducing your sales?

How do you think anyone finds out about the crap you write?

Listen, bub, NOTHING happens in this country until somebody sells something.

And I can sell Indian code as easily as that developed here. In fact, some of the code my company sells is developed in Bangalore.

Sort of a co-dependent relationship isn't it. Remember, products are developed FIRST then marketed and ultimately sold to a customer. Without products their can be no sales, this isn't a chicken-egg conundrum, one always comes before the other.

You started this tirade by equating Java programmers to the guy that cuts my grass. No offense but if asked I could easily perform the duties of salesman. The same cannot be said of a salesman asked to do my job. If the techies start looking for work, sales will be one of the first places they look. I know all about sales as I go on sales calls occasionally to explain what the salesman cannot.

How many top shelf software companies exist in India? Software developed in the US should carry a higher commision because it costs more to develop and therefore sells for a higher premium. You stand to lose more by selling software developed from a cheaper market.

”Listen, bub, NOTHING happens in this country until somebody sells something.”

LOL! That’s the honest to God truth! You should also add that when you are good at selling the only time you will run out of work is when there is nothing left to sell.

If my industry collapses I will go sell something else. If I can’t sell something in the US I will sell it overseas. If no company wants to employ me, I will buy things on my own and sell them for more than I paid.