India along with China are boom countries right now. A share in a lucrative market in an rapidly developing region... not bad news, just perhaps a future source of revenue for Amiga. Jarrod.
In my experiences it's a bottom line thing instead of any great love for Chinese or Indian markets or culture. It's a classic 2,3,4, or even 5 for one deal.... Up to Five Indian or Chinese employees for the price of one US counterpart.
Even if there is a slight loss in quality or customer support. The costs savings is unbeatable. This savings pays for Stateside receptionists, bonuses, tradeshows, hotel stays and allows the remaining stateside crew to SOMETIMES earn better salaries. This depends on the US division s company policy and if they know how to"take care" of their team. Someimes the revenue is distributed to upper management only.
If you're not an executive or in management or administration sadly... you could be out of a job.
China pumps out an incredible amount of skilled engineers who arent paying 40K a year to go to school (many go for free). I met a couple who learned to speak PERFECT English with a non regional accent. (They could'nt get slang like "He kicked the Bucket" though... lol!)
The US can't even begin to compete with that. In the 50's student loans and grants were initiated to give students an edge and go to school, since we were competing with the USSR and communist system where cheap education was the norm...
The craziness here is that you have CEO's of major companies advocating outsourcing to stay competetive when basic common sense dictates that you want systems in place that give us the technical expertise to handle all that work.
It's great for us who want Mini-MIGS but many US workers are feeling the pinch. I think the media has somekind of reality distortion field becuase this isn't covered nearly as much as it should be.
