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The new corporations are about efficiencies they are not paternalistic as their post-war incarnations. The situation is unfortunate but HP Enterprise Services has a goal of 60% off-shore workforce (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/meg-whitman-hp-offshore-60-224...). That would mean HP is going IBM route even though IBM got wacked big time.

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What was IBMs service offering? I'm not very familiar with the industry. The joke is, my father "gets paid to drive" because he's always in his car. Probably... 65% of the time he's in his car, 30% onsite, and 5% at the home office.

Can't offshore that, or can you?

They really, really try. Back when I was an AS400 jockey they started the transition. It went from having a guy on-site whenever we needed anything to having someone on the phone walking someone (usually someone unsuited for the task) through a debugging process.

In other words, "offshore all jobs except the ones that we need to keep our lucrative government contracts."

... And those jobs will be done by indentured H1Bs.

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