Musings on Globalization

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.