-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Column for Politech Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:33:45 -0800 From: Helft, Miguel <MHelft@private> To: 'declan@private' <declan@private> Offshore complexities: Jobs there mean jobs here LOOK AT STARTUP TASMAN NETWORKS AND YOU'LL SEE THAT KNEE-JERK CRITICISM IS SIMPLISTIC AND MYOPIC By Miguel Helft When critics point fingers at companies that send white-collar jobs overseas, they focus their anger on America's technology giants. That's understandable. When an HP, an IBM or an Oracle hires workers overseas instead of here, it's easy -- too easy -- to lash out indignantly. Here's what the critics often say: These are hugely profitable companies that could absorb the higher costs of keeping more jobs in Silicon Valley, if only they cared. They could earn a little less for their shareholders or pay their executives more reasonable salaries. They don't because they are greedy, callous and unpatriotic. But it's harder to slap the ``Benedict Arnold CEO'' label on Paul Smith, the 45-year-old chief executive of Tasman Networks, a San Jose-based startup that makes routers and is competing with the likes of Cisco. Yet Tasman's story shows why the knee-jerk criticism of any company sending jobs overseas is simplistic and myopic. [...] http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/miguel_helft/8206487.htm _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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