Comments on: Outsourcing to rise, but deals to shrink

Some 80 percent of businesses will farm out IT functions by the end of next year, the Meta Group predicts.

[waynehapp]

Strategic?

If the American economy is consumer driven and you outsource the people with the dissposable income to reduce costs. How it that strategic?

Is it not a death spiral to the poorhouse for everyone involved?

Fire and outsource to save money.
Outsourced people have no disposal income.
SUV's go unsold. HDTV's not bought.
Repeat until again and again until communism seems like a good idea again.

[waynehapp]

Outsource the writer.

Just occured to me. If we want people to write junk there's no reason to pay a dude in London to do it when we can outsource him for a year at the same cost of his lunch.

[David Arbogast]

Here we go again.

Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Its a good thing the electronics that were invented in America were outsourced to other countries to build... or you wouldn't even be able to afford the computer you use to write your messages.

I wonder how many of the people who think that software should be FREE also think that outsourcing is a bad idea. Either way, you could argue fewer jobs and money in America.... Except with outsourcing, at least people are still being paid to work and businesses can remain profitable.