Indian Programmers Better than the Best

Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:52 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

by Rob Sanchez
January 04, 2005 No. 1172

NPR's Marketplace is having a series of radio shows about the Y2K
problem. The first show about Y2K is quite good although they should
have spent less time interviewing the kook that built his home to
withstand the Y2K crisis. You can listen to it online by following
these directions:

1) go to: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/pm.html
2) click on the link that says "listen to entire show"
3) The show is about 28 minutes long. Skip to 18:10
4) They will soon archive the sound clip so you can listen to it at
your convenience.

There was an interesting discussion of the Y2K problem but at the end
of the show they had a scary teaser for the second show that will be
aired tonight. Here is my transcription of what was said beginning at
minute 26:10.

Indian outsourcing. Y2K got the ball rolling on
outsourcing. The companies that outsourced to India
found out that the programmers are often better than
the best you can find in the United States.

I called up NPR Marketplace headquarters in Los Angeles to see why they
are running a show that's nothing but an infomercial for Tata and the
other Indian outsourcers. For contact information go here:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/about/contact.html

I complained to the person at Marketplace that today's newscast sounds
like a biased industry claim to justify the outsourcing of American IT
jobs to India. He claimed that today's six minute report is balanced
and has opinions from university professors.

One professor you can bet they didn't interview is Dr. Norman Matloff
at UC Davis. That's because he would prove the shills wrong. Go to this
link to read Matloff's rebuttal of the so-called superiority of IT
workers in India:

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/CMMHype.txt

The Marketplace spokesperson urged me to listen to the report before I
judge the show. That's fair enough and I think all of you should too.
If you don't listen to NPR on your FM radio you can go online. Be sure
to let them know what you think of their show.

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