On 12 Jun 2008 13:17:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote: >This is a totally different animal than outsourcing an IT job that can >be performed remotely. In the case of manufacturing, the rising costs of >transportation fuels are already beginning to change things. If >transportation costs get high enough, manufactured items will again be >made locally (or very close by) by those skilled enough to produce them.
They are making super-greenhouses in the U.K. But the price of fuel won't make much difference in the cost of shipping data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
