[ale] IT moving offshore

[bob.evans at bankofamerica.com]

I was the programmer interviewed for that article. As is often the case,
they got the facts wrong, but the bigger story is that IT is being offshored
at a growing rate. The IT management for BofA had to bless the deal outlined
in the article, and they came back from India with thumbs up. They even
decided to utilize Indian consulting companies within the bank's IT
structure.
I don't know  what a good answer is to this growing problem. I never really
got interested in the issue until it affected me personally. One of the
resources I've found is the Programmers Guild.
http://www.programmersguild.org
One reason IT is an easy target for offshoring is the fact that programmers
have no national organization, like architects, lawyers, doctors, or
engineers. I'm not sure the Programmers Guild is the answer, but it is a
start.


Bob Evans

10 days away from unemployment...





Transam <transam at cavu.com> on 05/21/2002 03:56:32 AM

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Subject:  [ale] IT moving offshore



This seems to answer all of us wondering where all of the programming jobs
have gone.

-Bob

Forwarded:

"Fair Trade on Jobs?"
eWeek (05/13/02) Vol. 19, No. 19, P. 59; Vaas, Lisa

U.S. companies are increasingly exporting their IT jobs offshore,
which should serve as a clear indication that information technology
is the latest sector to become industrialized. And like workers in
sectors such as agriculture, textiles, and auto manufacturing who
want to protect their jobs, IT workers will have to acquire strong
business skills. "Where all the development is outsourced, you've got
to have people to manage that," explains John Brudi, a DB2 programmer
at Radio Shack, who decided to take some business courses at George
Washington University after the company announced its outsourcing plan
two years ago. Howard Rubin, a research fellow at Meta Group, says
the majority of IT skills can be outsourced. Although market experts
expected the recession and U.S. nationalism following the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks would slow the outsourcing trend, they have not. In
fact, offshore outsourcing continues to gain in momentum as companies
try to reduce their IT costs. Gartner projects that 30 percent of all
Global 2000 enterprises will outsource IT offshore or nearshore by 2005.
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=25213&a=26941,00.asp

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