IT Outsourcing to India November 6, 2006
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A recent article stated that in addition to India supposedly possessing the worlds top IT school (topping America’s MIT), that India’s IT industry is rapidly expanding to the point that it poses a real threat to America’s IT industry.
I dont quite agree with all of those statements though. Irrespective of the fact that I dont pretend to know how to judge India’s vs. our MIT, I dont think that India’s IT industry poses a huge threat to ours. Granted, many US companies are outsourcing IT work to India. However, those are still American companies, who employ largely US employees as the better part of their workforce. Additionally, many companies (such as PWC and Guident Technologies, my mother’s company) may hire Indian IT workers, but on the condition that they come to and work within the US, thus directly benefitting the U.S. While I may not be able to post as much as I would like to at the present time, in short, I dont think that India poses any real IT threat to the US to the extent that our overall IT industry should be quaking about.
Brief post November 2, 2006
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I was talking with my cousin Caesar on facebook yesterday. He is a senior at Northwestern and is studying abroad in Ecuador for this semester. He was saying that although he loves the food in Ecuador that is available on the street, he still cannot avoid such places like McDonalds and KFC, American fast food places. Its crazy to me that American fast-food companies have managed to creep there way onto virtually every part of the globe. Especially in a country (like Ecuador) which has amazing local food…McDonalds (or McDo, as the French call it and use that to make fun of Americans) seems a bit trite, and evil…in a really obscure use of the word.
