[SLUG] OT - CAD vendors advising customers to outsource

From: Ken Elliott (kelliott4@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 07:14:42 EDT


>From upFront.eZine:
<quote>
   CAD vendors are emphasizing outsourcing to their customers.
   That's to sell more software, and especially to create a market
   for collaboration software.

   Last Friday, we listened as PTC executives boasted to financial analysts
   that they are advising companies to replace $100K/yr American engineers
   with $20K/yr Indian engineers. It occurred to us that maybe nearly all of

   its employees -- and those of any other software company -- could get
outsourced
   enmasse to India, Russia, China, wherever -- software programming,
marketing and
   public relations, IT and tech support, accounting, whatever. All an
American software
   company needs in the United States is a ceo and local resellers.
</quote>

I've always had a dislike for PTC for this kind of crap. PTC makes a
product known as Pro/Engineer or Pro/E.

Ken Elliott
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