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IBM and Boeing Bring Work Closer to Home - Bad News for Outsourcing?

You can all get excited about this, but in the end, it won't make a difference.

Unless there is a major legal change, outsourcing is inevitable. When salaries in India are 1/5 of what they are in the US, it's a lost cause. Not only IBM will push it, but so will the customer, who will want the lower India/China rates IBM can provide. Yes, you can talk about the quality. yes, you can talk about the language. I hear you. I live with those every day (until I get replaces by someone in India). But the reality is, when customers look at the bottomline, they'll give up a lot of things to paying 5 times less.

So it's not that I don't share your views on the value of the work done in the US. I just don't share your optimism.