Nickname: Big Joe

Review: OH YEAH

Date reviewed: Aug 29, 2008 2:07 PM

Nickname: kumart

Review: "equine excreta", that sound like load of horse scrap to me. If customers want cheap scrap from India, they can have it. Cheap scrap better than costly scrap i think ;)

Date reviewed: Aug 9, 2006 6:42 PM

Nickname: venkat

Review: China in the past 30 years has gone from no manufacturing to manufacturing every one of top 100 brand products. Why is that? If you keep the argument simple, it settles like water at the bottom of the pool, i.e. cost. Customers are willing to pay the lowest price for the highest value they can get. And why is that? Think of your family, parents, spouse etc... Every one of our family members searches for value they can buy at the lowest cost. India and the outsourcing story for india is no different. Of course jobs are lost, US, European folks have to work harder to keep the jobs they loved, myself included - I am Irish. But the truth is in front of us. We sell products such as Caterpillar earth moving equipment, Windows OS, Intel Chipsets, Corn, Sugar Syrup, Wheat. You think we do the Indians, Chinese or Russians a favor by selling cheaper than they produce? Who are we kidding? Think again before we insult others for doing the same to us that we have done to them the past 50 years...

Date reviewed: Aug 4, 2006 3:04 AM

Nickname: chase

Review: "......It's very innovative" are you kidding me? Does anybody know how many patents the oh-so-touted Infosys has in total? FIVE FREAKING patents. And TCS even fewer. That, after having revenue growth in the double digits for a long time. And all this BS about business process innovation!! Why don't you give us a break and just admit the plain fact that you find India attractive because you pay 1/10th to 1/15th of what you pay here for the same work (not necessarily same skills or "innovation." Plain truth is more palatable than the equine excreta you guys dole out every day in interviews and business columns.

Date reviewed: Aug 3, 2006 3:28 PM

Nickname: Krish

Review: Hi... in the 70s and 80s, everybody was saying India is a closed economy. . . they won't allow capitalists. . .they are afraid of competition, it should allow the MNCs etc. . . now when India has gotten up and start running. . . and going. . . every body says outsourcing. . . why these double standards?!

Date reviewed: Aug 3, 2006 12:29 PM

Nickname: India no more white man

Review: The world is flat. The westerners have made the world so technology savvy that any Tom, Dick or Harry with same talent can take up their work. Anyway it's only 1% of their work and that too when it does not hit their employment rate. I was in the UK and believe me I could only find 1% of the developers who would match my skills. What say people?

Date reviewed: Aug 3, 2006 12:23 PM

Nickname: kumart

Review: Well said bullshit. You write the truth. But India is cheap and best. We will do cheap and best upper managementr for u. Aat cat in India. This is ur chance!

Date reviewed: Aug 3, 2006 7:25 AM

Nickname: SmartOpinion

Review: Cool down guys. I am working for a client in Baltimore who offshores through IBM to Kentucky for production support. Cost is a major factor but you are blaming the wrong guy. It's not IBM who wants to reduce cost, it's the customers. Why do customers want to reduce cost? In the U.S. there is vendor competition as well as Stock market pressure. So making 13 billion dollars in one quarter by XOM still doesn't satisfy the shareholders. Before U criticize anybody just imagine yourselves as entrepreneurs. Consider you own a Subway restaurant. Now the maximum expenses are the rent, franchise fees and guess what, employee payroll. The first 2 U cannot control but the last you can... PS: If you refuse to adapt to changes you will become EXTINCT.

Date reviewed: Aug 2, 2006 4:32 PM

Nickname: Bullshit

Review: This is a crock. Only reason I'm around is that IBM hasn't found someone cheaper elsewhere. Dumb down the workforce, cut pennies, etc. If IBM wants to save some real $$$, why not oursource upper management? Surely there's someone out there who can do a better job than Sam Palmissano, and for a LOT less than $20M/year.

Date reviewed: Aug 2, 2006 2:24 PM

Nickname: c5vtman

Review: Sounds to me like another deutschbag company that ignores the fact that we have very talented people here in the U.S. When I hear of this crap over and over again, I just don't buy it anymore. When is Corporate Management ever going to wake up and realize that eventually you're shortchanging American talent. When I read a little bit and see what this guy is doing, I heard enough. Bottom line is to make the corporate world richer and shortchange the middle class worker and so forth. Just my opinion.

Date reviewed: Aug 2, 2006 12:31 PM