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Wednesday, March 24, 2004  

Andreessen: High on Offshore Outsourcing
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0304/23outsourcing.html

Marc Andreessen, celebrated for creating the first Web browser a decade ago, is an enthusiastic supporter of "offshoring" because it "fundamentally reduces the cost of goods and services for Americans." He points out: "If I can get my tax return prepared for less money because the offshore labor is cheaper than the domestic labor, then as an American consumer, I'm better off. At the same time, when American companies engage in offshoring, they increase their own competitiveness worldwide -- delivering the same product or service at a lower cost. That increases their ability to win in the world market... The process of offshoring creates both jobs and consumer demand in countries. If you look at what's happening in India and China today, there's an incredibly rapid creation of a middle class. And of course, many of the goods and services they are going to buy are going to come from American companies. So they will be buying iPods from Apple and drinking Coke and wearing Nike shoes and getting their financial services from Merrill Lynch." Andreessen calls the desire of some members of Congress to restrict the use of offshore labor "the silliest, dumbest thing I've ever heard of in years. It's just nuts." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 23 Mar 2004) [Copyright 2004. NewsScan Daily] This has been added to Outsourcing/Offshoring Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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