They (the State of California) tells us that since April 2001, Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area lost 192,000 IT jobs. Most of them were programming positions according to the report.


>>>I wonder how many VFP jobs are being outsouced to India...
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>>Hi Jim... been a while.
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>>I think the 250,000 number is totally bogus. I might be able to accept it (as probable, NOT as 'acceptable) if they were saying that there would be 250,000 IT jobs LEFT in U.S. by 2015.
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>>Jim
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>I was wondering about this, too. According to another report, alone in 2002, half a million IT jobs were lost in the U.S. (reducing the employees from 6.5 to 6 million). So, what is so surprising about half that amount lost in 11 years???