Nickname: Jonathan

Review: Yes. Go exploitation! Great to see that IBM (IT Sweat Shop) keeps on giving more jobs overseas. Why not just move all sales there also? We dont want this useless company in the U.S. or Canada. Lets see how long you will last without any dollar revenue. Stalin: "Capitalism will give us the rope to hang them with."

Date reviewed: Aug 11, 2009 5:22 PM

Nickname: Sahadeva

Review: Very interisting article. I am working on a project to understand why and how companies relocalize. Could you tell me whom in your company I could contact in this regard? Nirata French college Pondicherry

Date reviewed: Sep 4, 2006 10:20 AM

Nickname: Abhishek

Review: The reason that IBM or any other MNC like Accenture is at any disadvantage in hiring due to Indian companies offerring better facilities in terms of infrastructure (swimming pools, etc. !) is absolute farce! No one joins any company simply because they are lured by these facilities. IBM's reputation and higher salary attracts more people than all the facilities of Infosys, Wipro and TCS combined. More people join these companies because they hire more through campus recruitments and job fairs.

Date reviewed: Jul 5, 2006 5:44 AM

Nickname: travis

Review: Ok, bicycle workers so be it. Only the future will tell. IBM is post Gerstner (last CEO) and has made a paradigm shift in its thinking. Granted India is not as sparkling as China, but if you go to India then you will realize that in the small shanties ebtrepreneurs are trying to compete in their own ways. Don't want to be streotypical but globalization is a reality we must face as individuals, as companies, and as an economy. Given equal opportunity everyone can succeed. Pre world war II everyone lynched Japan. Look what it became. It's so easy to make statements based on non-existing or, at best, weak premises. India has regained its lost pride in the past few years. Let us give it a chance to prove itself rather than writing the history and India's epithaph today. Only the future will tell--unless someone holds a crystal ball. If you have one SJ can I borrow it so that I can have some of your wisdom? ;-)

Date reviewed: Jul 3, 2006 3:28 PM

Nickname: j

Review: It seems this news is hard to digest for many here. By the way do you ever find a honest person in your country.

Date reviewed: Jun 30, 2006 10:11 AM

Nickname: Indian Good at math LOL

Review: SJ, Indians better at math and science? Do you have any evidence to justify that? Indians are, at most, ox cart engineers and bicycle mechanics and low end IT workers. Dr. Tatu Vanhanen and Dr. Richard Lynn are right about Indian's brain power.

Date reviewed: Jun 27, 2006 6:39 AM

Nickname: Natteringnabob

Review: To SJ - Far more than IIT or scientists, what India seems to produce is hubris. Pride goes before a fall. The U.S. was a technology giant for decades before India even thought of entering the game.

Date reviewed: Jun 26, 2006 5:49 PM

Nickname: SJ

Review: Face it! India produces the world best breed of scientists and engineers who are better in math and stronger in sciences. We have more IITs that are at minimum as good as MIT or better! Like a top Microsoft executive once said "Indian engineers are the best gift to US." Do not blame us for your job loss! Work on your basics!

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2006 6:02 AM

Nickname: Difference

Review: Miss Kripalani, first of all learn the difference between a rocket scientist and a nuclear scientist. A.P.J. Abdul kalam is a rocket scientist who headed India's missile development program. He is not a nuclear scientist who can give India its nuclear bomb.

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2006 1:07 AM

Nickname: A. Jan

Review: Besides India, companies like IBM should start exploring other countries in the South Asian region for outsourcing. Pakistan and Bangladesh will emerge as contenders for this role due to their demographics and rising literacy rates. Economic infrastructure is already better developed in Pakistan compared with India. Pakistan is not over-crowded like India is. Investment opportunities in IT in Pakistan are aplenty for those who want to move away from the beaten road to India. There is a surprisingly high quality of IT professionalism available as well, if you select people carefully.

Date reviewed: Jun 19, 2006 11:19 AM