Got an opinion on offshoring? Has your job been outsourced? Are you an offshore developer working on an American contract? Even better, maybe you're one of those moustache-twirling corporate super-villains responsible for the devastating famine in Silicon Valley.
Not everyone agreed with last week's editorial, which warned of long-term economic peril from offshoring. In this rebuttal, DevX contributor Eric McMullen tells why offshoring is good for the world, good for the U.S., and even good for domestic programmers.
by Eric McMullen
October 26, 2004
he typical programmer wears clothes made in Honduras. He drives to work in a Korean car while he sips Mexican coffee. He sits down at his Chinese-made desk, and turns on his laptop that was assembled in Indonesia with parts from Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil, and a dozen other countries. Nearly every second of his day, some product manufactured in some other country makes his life easier or more agreeable and his lifestyle more affordable. And all the while, his 401k hums away inaudibly, growing in fits and starts with the profits of a global marketplace.
He seems like a nice enough guy. Then he opens his mouth and complains about the Indians and the Russians and the Vietnamese and the Philippinos, all bent, it seems, on taking American jobs.
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he typical programmer wears clothes made in Honduras. He drives to work in a Korean car while he sips Mexican coffee. He sits down at his Chinese-made desk, and turns on his laptop that was assembled in Indonesia with parts from Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil, and a dozen other countries. Nearly every second of his day, some product manufactured in some other country makes his life easier or more agreeable and his lifestyle more affordable. And all the while, his 401k hums away inaudibly, growing in fits and starts with the profits of a global marketplace.
