Sun Microsystems has long moved plenty of Java and Linux/Unix jobs to its R+D centers in Asia, for that matter, more specifically, Sun´s Beijing offices.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q= "sun+beijing+team"&aq=f&aqi=&oq=
FC
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:01 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
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> At 07:45 AM 2/19/2010, Fernando Cassia wrote:
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>> It´s not that software engineers and engineers in general are "more
>> capable" than U.S. ones, they are FAR CHEAPER than U.S. ones. The rest
>> doesn´t matter. They say "for the price of one U.S: engineer, I can have
>> four engineers in (India, China, Argentina, for that matter). If the things
>> those overseas engineers suck, or need 4x more people, they add more cheap
>> engineers. People with MBAs haven´t read
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month FC
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> it's still the same meme. the fig leaf is always the fear of a brain drain.
> it covers up the facts on the ground: cheaper labor.
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