Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Alexei Roudnev
This race exists, because American employees keeps many unnecessary expenses, making local workforce very expensive. In reality, even if people in India or Russia will have the same life level as in USA, they will cost 2 - 3 times less. There are many core reasons, driving work costs up and

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Ricardo \Rick\ Gonzalez
Nicole wrote: China is a communist and closed loop society. Thats teh real problem. The company that claims it runs the internet (or some such phrase) is now saying we prefer communist China than America and American Jobs. Who are you to say communism's bad if you've never even tried it?

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Hani Mustafa
Ricardo, If I were you, I'd atleast pipe my shit through aspell a couple hundred times, before I even consider hitting 'y'. That's euphemism. And to you believe everything the liberal news media says? As I recall, this whole thread (which, I might add, is You mean And do you..., right?

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Paul Gilbert
: 5167666068 mobile: 5164564983 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cisco moves even more to china. Its time for all American Tech workers to stand up

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Sorry - I tried it; I can said that it is BAD. - Original Message - From: Ricardo Rick Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Peter Galbavy [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 7:41 AM Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Henry Linneweh
The only event that is driving this, is Cisco wants to dominate the Chinese market and the only way to sell in China is to manufacture product there, using their people to manufacture, that is how the game is played there and for the chinese it makes sense, considering the government there has

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: Hey, Mr. Spelling Bee, it is *their*, not there. So, you can't make an argument that is valid and focus on the spelling? This thread has gotten a bit long in the tooth, so I'm waiting for Godwin's law to take effect. Had you written above with s/\(Hey,

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Michael Hallgren
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:41:16 -0400 Ricardo \Rick\ Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of people their. Probobly mostly the execs smiling about their payoff and there is the word you're looking for, not their Hey, Mr. Spelling Bee, it is *their*, not there. So, you can't make

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Curtis Maurand
Alexei Roudnev wrote: This race exists, because American employees keeps many unnecessary expenses, making local workforce very expensive. In reality, even if people in India or Russia will have the same life level as in USA, they will cost 2 - 3 times less. There are many core reasons, driving

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:23 PM 9/25/2004, you wrote: engagement is fair trade. Lessaiz Faire economics was tried about 100 years ago. It resulted in the Great Depression and children dying of tuberculosis in the factories. Why does anyone think it'll work today? Curtis, I tried to stay out of this since it

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Alexei Roudnev
] Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. At 02:23 PM 9/25/2004, you wrote: engagement is fair trade. Lessaiz Faire economics was tried about 100 years ago. It resulted in the Great Depression and children dying of tuberculosis

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Curtis Maurand
Robert Boyle wrote: [snip] I answered this off list with references. If anyone is interested, contact me off list. Curtis

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Scott Morris
really is not falling. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Linneweh Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 1:42 PM To: Alexei Roudnev; Paul Jakma; Robin Lynn Frank Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china

Godwin's Law (Was: RE: Cisco moves even more to china.)

2004-09-25 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Godwin's Law: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. See also: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/ - ferg -- Scott Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone in a previous e-mail mentioned someone's law about

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Tony Li
teached Cisco networking in Russia, and it was very useful for the students. ) - Original Message - From: Robert Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Curtis Maurand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. At 02

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Peter Galbavy
Nicole wrote: So.. I guess we will be cranking out those H1b's...Plan to kiss your raises and or jobs bye bye to some specialized cheap imported Cisco trained networking person from China. There is an implicit assumption here that the objective of 100% of these trainees will be to move as

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Erik Haagsman
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 03:53, Joseph wrote: Its time for all American Tech workers to stand up and let our voices be heard. Perhaps it's time instead to make sure you're good at what you do and try to be on the forefront of tech, rather than whining about how all those bad people from abroad

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: Erik Haagsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:59 AM Subject: RE: Cisco moves even more to china. On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 03:53, Joseph wrote: Its time for all American Tech workers

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
Its time for all American Tech workers to stand up and let our voices be heard. Yes, definitely. Emigrate to the countries where the jobs are going to. Learn to speak a new language if necessary, after all you are all smart people, right? Learning a new human language only takes a couple of

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Joseph
Hello Erik, Although I agree with you on many points I think its time people stop complaining and take action. My point was not to idly complain about the outsourcing trend and claim that protectionism is the answer but, to ask if there is a better way to deal with the long term trend for ALL of

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Curtis Maurand
Then you all need to stop purchasing from Dell, IBM, HP, Cisco, et al. They've all outsourced quite a bit to the third world. 90% of the parts for any of this stuff come from Asia. The US has lost more manufacturing jobs in the last 3 years then the previous 22. There are 18% fewer tech

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Scott McGrath
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Haagsman Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:55 PM To: Dan Mahoney, System Admin Cc: Nicole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:29, Dan Mahoney, System

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Curtis Maurand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The way to fix things is to remove the incentives to move the jobs overseas in the first place. So are you suggesting wages (and standard of living) in America are reduced to the level of those in the 3rd world? -- Roland

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Erik Haagsman
Hi Joseph, On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:19, Joseph wrote: Your perception of Americans I think is very skewed by the media. You obviously did not read my post and wanted take a cheap shot. Although this is hardly the place to discuss this, I never said Americans, I said we. I'm Dutch, and we've

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Neil J. McRae
Yeah, but don't they already have a company over there that is producing Cisco stuff? Or did I mis-read a lawsuit? Cisco don't have a choice, they are starting to see the competition from Chinese companies already - they need to reduce the cost of manufacturing so that they can stay

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
The way to fix things is to remove the incentives to move the jobs overseas in the first place. So are you suggesting wages (and standard of living) in America are reduced to the level of those in the 3rd world? Hmmm... A beginning software engineer in Bangalore makes 15,000 Rupees per

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Joseph wrote: Modern capitalism does create a race to the bottom effect for labor which seems to have no end. This race exists because of imbalances in prosperity in world. The ultimate effect will be to completely level standard of living in the world, which in the greater

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Neil J. McRae wrote: www.huawei.com I've recently see one of Huawei's 1760 alternative boxes and the build quality is fantastic. As a matter of fact, Huawei outsources a lot of its coding / design to their sei-cmm5 certified operation in Bangalore, India, and its shenzhen campus has at least a

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If you really want to try and stop the wave, go ahead, but I think you should do that work elsewhere. I'm all in favour of enhancing the wave; but who is worst off, the American engineer who fears the day he can't afford the payments on his

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Perciballi
Great...So Cisco is turning into the Nike of technology. I can't wait to see 11 year olds building routers that sell for $1.5 million USD, while getting paid 7 cents/hour. [Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:49:11PM -0700] Nicole Inscribed these words... Lovely, Just lovely. Just heard On

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Drew Weaver
] Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. Great...So Cisco is turning into the Nike of technology. I can't wait to see 11 year olds building routers that sell for $1.5 million USD, while getting paid 7 cents/hour. [Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:49:11PM -0700] Nicole Inscribed these words

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:45:01AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: I just find the whole idea of Cisco amusing, they still sell new 7500 series routers for 6 figures with the right configurations, and they've been around for 10 years, in what other industry can you take a product that is a decade

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Vinay Bannai
Outsourcing is a way of life. It is a result of free trade policy. It has been happening for a long time in the other industries. There are very real benefits to the outsourcing. It helps keep our cost of living down (I live in California). On the other hand, it is very hard on the folks whose

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Then you all need to stop purchasing from Dell, IBM, HP, Cisco, et al. Of course. Don't purchase from DELL, purchase from ServersDirect. Don't purchase from HP, purchase (for home) from brand-less or E-Machine. Don't purchase from EMC, purchase from Adap. Are any idiots here, who purchase CA

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Scott Morris
24, 2004 7:19 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Cisco moves even more to china. Hello Erik, Although I agree with you on many points I think its time people stop complaining and take action. My point was not to idly complain about the outsourcing trend and claim that

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Ricardo \Rick\ Gonzalez
Nicole wrote: Lovely, Just lovely. Just heard On CNN, Lou Dobbs. (but can't find it on their site) Well if Lou Dobbs said it on the air, then it must be true...

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Scott McGrath
The current wave of outsourcing is driven by greed and greed alone. What's going on now would make Gordon Gekko blush. There is nothing stopping the companies from paying the workers in India or China the prevailing wage in the developed countries which would really accelerate growth in these

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: This race exists because of imbalances in prosperity in world. This race exists because governments beholden to corporate interests, permit it to exist. No, with free trade, it exists because of imbalance. Unless of course you are completely against

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Nicole
On 24-Sep-04 the GW commando coersion squad reported Peter Galbavy said : Nicole wrote: So.. I guess we will be cranking out those H1b's...Plan to kiss your raises and or jobs bye bye to some specialized cheap imported Cisco trained networking person from China. There is an implicit

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 24-Sep-04 the GW commando coersion squad reported Peter Galbavy said : Nicole wrote: So.. I guess we will be cranking out those H1b's...Plan to kiss your raises and or jobs bye bye to some specialized cheap imported Cisco trained networking person from China.

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Gregory Hicks
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cisco moves even more to china. Lovely, Just lovely. Just heard On CNN, Lou Dobbs. (but can't find it on their site) During a Beijing news conference John Chambers (Cisco

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Kell
Nicole wrote: Lovely, Just lovely. Just heard On CNN, Lou Dobbs. (but can't find it on their site) During a Beijing news conference John Chambers (Cisco CEO) Says We believe in giving something back and truly becoming a Chineese company. China will become the IT center or the world China will

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Haagsman
Hmm..we're flooded by CCNA's and CCNP's that often hardly know how logon to a router as it is, so this will probably add a lot more, a bit like the MCSE craze a few years ago ;-) When they say training thousands of students, they're not talking thousands of CCIE-level specialists that actually

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Erik Haagsman wrote: I've always personally taken anyone who said but I'm an MCSE with a grain of salt. I've had equal respect for the A-plus and Net-Plus certifications, which are basically bought. I used to have more trust in the /CC../ certifications but I find I may be

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Haagsman
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:29, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I've always personally taken anyone who said but I'm an MCSE with a grain of salt. I've had equal respect for the A-plus and Net-Plus certifications, which are basically bought. I take most certifications with a grain of salt,

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Jason Graun
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Haagsman Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:55 PM To: Dan Mahoney, System Admin Cc: Nicole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:29, Dan Mahoney, System Admin

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:55 PM To: Dan Mahoney, System Admin Cc: Nicole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:29, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I've always personally taken anyone who said but I'm an MCSE with a grain of salt. I've had

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread John Kinsella
: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:55 PM To: Dan Mahoney, System Admin Cc: Nicole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:29, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I've always personally taken anyone who said but I'm an MCSE with a grain of salt

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Joseph
Hello Everyone, Hey, I feel your pain and am seeing the same things happen all over our industry. Sadly, globalization is not a new trend and it will never end but I think its time WE alter its course. Its time for all American Tech workers to stand up and let our voices be heard. Modern

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Joseph [23/09/04 18:53 -0700]: Don't Support Outsourcing I suggest you lead by example. Don't buy from companies that outsource US jobs. Be very vocal and Now please go unplug all your cisco and juniper equipment. Then open up your servers and remove all the RAM / hard disks etc that

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Joseph
Hello Suresh, I appreciate and respect your opinion. Please offer me that same respect in kind. Iam aware of the fact of our diverseglobal economy and only think as many in US do we should be fair and equitable to all parties WORLDWIDE. Respectfully yours, JosephSuresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Joe Johnson
] On Behalf Of Joseph Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. Hello Suresh, I appreciate and respect your opinion. Please offer me that same respect in kind. Iam aware of the fact of our

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Alexei Roudnev
100 engineers, you will always have most of them bad). So, let's just wait a little. - Original Message - From: Joe Johnson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:15 PM Subject: Re: Cisco moves even more to china. While it is certainly