David,
Thanks for the link. "Applications Management Services" sounds more like help desk support than software development. Is that the way you read it? I'm not looking for a help desk gig - are you?:-)

AFAIC: Let the Indians have it - it's a boiler room job to handhold IBM's state side users -i think:)

>Terry,
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>Here is just one of several recent stories about companies moving programming jobs overseas... in this case it's IBM.
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>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1413737,00.asp
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>>>I am curious as to why you would make a statement that "The overseas technical job paranoia is a rumor or hoax!"
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>>TV!
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>>There was a special on NWI (or was it TechTV?). Anyway, the crew was in India, examining the "boom" in tech jobs.