05 Jun 2004
Offshoring obsessions miss the point

Gee, I wonder why this particular fellow would be defending outsourcing ...???

Marc Hebert is executive vice president of Sierra Atlantic, an offshore outsourcer of software development, maintenance and support.
But what really appalled me about this was an assertion by Mr. Herbert that:
... newly funded software start-ups are required by venture capitalists to do their product development offshore ...

Amazing, appalling and awful. One of these days, perhaps we'll wake up, but I'm starting to have my doubts. In the meantime, I suppose I'd better practice the new American mantra for the 21st century: "You want fries with that?"

With all due respect to the people whose livelihood is being affected by software offshoring, I frankly think all this obsessive focus on the subject misses the real point.

(link) [CNET News.com]

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