What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2045
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That should read "decent living by first world standards".
I did not say it was a bad thing. I said Congress splitting up the business into illogical sectors is very bad. Especially when the maintenance...
The thing that offshore labor is again forcing Americans to do is justify our standard of living. It's not a birthright and it's not something we're enbreastled to: our standard of living is something we need to earn, again and again. If it doesn't seem fair that we collectively have to work for our standard of living, think how it must feel to people in the developing world who don't have a decent standard of living to defend. These countries have worked hard, have something of real value to sell, and can now use it to raise their own standards of living.
Mikko Nahkola When I started at Tandem in 1981, they were selling systems with from two to 16 custom 16-bit minicomputers interconnected by a duplexed bus. Each mini had its own memory and...
The first world response to offshoring should be, IMHO:
- Determine how to encourage developing nations to develop socially and idealogically, as they develop economically.
- Start trying to come up with ways the world can use all the new productivity it's about to have. (Just look at all the millions of new engineers and scientists entering the global workforce. The potential for amazing new technologies is immense.)
- Take steps to keep strategically relevent. We need to retain deep technical skills locally. Call it "saving for a rainy day".
In some aspects of labor, yes. I don't know why this is a suprise, or an offense.
-Mike --
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