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Gates: Microsoft to invest $1.7B in India
Boston Herald ^
| 7 December 2005
| Associated Press
Posted on 12/07/2005 7:14:49 AM PST by ShadowAce
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:14:49 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:15:11 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:21:18 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
That's odd, he didn't mention the 50 cruise ships he is going to purchase so that he can station 1000's of Indian application programmers 12 miles off our coast.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:21:51 AM PST
by
UglyinLA
To: UglyinLA
He doesn't need to do that. He can just buy the country and people and just cram it all into California.....(oh yeah! and Seattle!)
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:24:17 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: ShadowAce
Ane he wonders why kids don't want to go into IT, they don't want to have to move to India to find work.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:29:06 AM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(Mesocons for Rice '08)
To: ShadowAce
30K GM & Ford layoffs...Detroit is gonna be an even worse place to live
imo
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:32:20 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit my sister-we knew just what to do- gather large rocks & squash her-Mullet Ho'mar)
To: ShadowAce
Interesting that the usual suspect hasn't chimed in yet. Guess he needs more time to get marching orders.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:42:13 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
To: joesnuffy
Is it actually possible for Detroit to be a worse place to live. Kabul is beginning to look more inviting that Detroit.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:43:12 AM PST
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: zeugma
LOL! You do realize, of course, that this is all Linux's fault and that MS is forced to do this?
Nevermind that MS is supposed to be the market leader, not a follower.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:50:47 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Mike Darancette
Yep, no IT jobs in the USA...except for those willing to work...
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:53:44 AM PST
by
dakine
To: ShadowAce
Bill Gates, why not invest in this country?
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:55:20 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: Mike Darancette
I would not worry about that, the laws in India do not make it very safe to develop over there. The company I work for got burned on that one and now no longer do business in India.
To: MeSpikeLibs
I would not worry about that, the laws in India do not make it very safe to develop over there. The company I work for got burned on that one and now no longer do business in India. Can you give details on your company's experience? Is it documented in the press? We are up to our eyeballs with India and China outsourcing in chip design right now, and it is good to have hard data to backup American concerns.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:08:31 AM PST
by
Yossarian
(The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.)
To: Mike Darancette
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:32:26 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: ShadowAce
Much of the money would go toward improving the software giant’s research and development capabilities,
Newspeak alert.
When Microsoft refers to research and development, they primarily mean software development, not research. In other words, they're trying to avoid saying, "We're hiring Indian programmers instead of American programmers."
To: ShadowAce
Smart move by Gates.
India offers a huge market with educated consumers.
To top it off, research there is a fraction, or less than 20% of what such research would cost at the home base.
A huge bang for Gate's buck who not so long ago found himself in the fangs of a Clinton Reno coup to bust up his conglomerate for the sin of not feeding the Clinton money grabbing through.
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posted on
12/07/2005 9:01:25 AM PST
by
hermgem
To: dakine
except for those willing to work... At what wages? The Blood bath for IT professionals of down sizing and outsourcing pretty much destroyed positions at senior level responsibility and salary.
I guess they can get Volkswagens and join the Geek Squad.
To: MeSpikeLibs
The company I work for got burned on that one and now no longer do business in India. I got burned for half a million.
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
12/07/2005 9:38:08 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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