[SI-LIST] Re: [OT] Offshore engineering

  • From: "Steve GullWing UK" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <Aubrey_Sparkman@xxxxxxxx>, <rsefton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:16:40 -0000

> Patrick/Aubrey,
>
>             I am in a similar position to yourself.  Your argument is well
put.  Unfortunately,
>            any publicly listed company is only after one thing, profit.
That is the capitalist
>            world we live in. It is not a world I particulary like, but its
the best we have.  As I
>            see it the 1st world ecomonies will be employing product
management in their
>            respective countries with the Engineering in the 2nd world
countries and production
>            going to 3rd world countries.
>
> Regards
> Steve Mitchell
> GullWing Ltd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aubrey_Sparkman@xxxxxxxx>
To: <rsefton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: [OT] Offshore engineering


> Like Robert, I have usually been a free-market person.  And Patrick's
> comments on helping others get started sound good.  Patrick also makes the
> good point of exporting jobs to the extend of loosing that skill in the
home
> country, no matter whether the home country is US, France, or other.  So,
> what's the right thing to do?
> I fully support collaboration where both parties grow and learn together.
> But I have a problem with being asked to train my replacement in a
> developing country.  As far as I can tell, my only defense is to keep
> learning and stay on the bleeding edge.  What other options do I have?
>
> Aubrey Sparkman
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Sefton [mailto:rsefton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:24 AM
> > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: [OT] Offshore engineering
> >
> >
> > I enthusiastically agree that this is a relevant and very interesting
> > topic. I wish more people would chime in because I don't have a good
> > feel yet for where the majority stands on it. There was a
> > long thread on
> > this same topic on the [pcdlist] several weeks ago, and the PCB layout
> > community is downright scared about the offshore trend in
> > that industry.
> >
> > My opinion: I have almost blind faith in the free market as
> > the ultimate
> > equalizer. In the long term the market will decide the most efficient
> > model for each phase of product development, and it may be
> > that the most
> > efficient model right now is cheap foreign engineers. Could
> > be a painful
> > next couple of decades for engineers in the U.S., but I also
> > have almost
> > blind faith that the U.S. has the closest thing on this
> > planet to a true
> > free market and will always rise to the top eventually. I say let the
> > market rule.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Zabinski, Patrick J." <zabinski.patrick@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:22 AM
> > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: [OT] Offshore engineering
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Martin,
> > >
> > > Although not necessarily a technical topic, I do believe
> > > the topic is relevant to this forum (albeit we should
> > > constrain such discussions to a minimum).
> > >
> >
> >
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