Hi,

I found a couple articles and web sites to pass on as well as pose a couple questions.

Reported in Economist.com eNewsletter, 06/08/06.

In one of the biggest outsourcing investments in India, IBM said it plans to spend $6 billion over three years in the country developing its software-services business.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2006/gb20060606_283521.htm?chan=tc&link_position=link4

Here's a public school web site that made a "Cliff Notes" version of "The World is Flat".

http://www.midlakes.org/openingday/Opening%20Day%202005--the%20World%20is%20Flat_files/frame.htm

I wonder how our school boards view our situation relative to the book and the future trends?

Several months back IBM was advertising for small rural businesses to apply for

employment positions listed through the Nebraska Dept. of Economic Development.

One assumption is that there was very little response to their solicitation and

they have implemented a far reaching outsourcing program for their backoffice

operations.

http://assist.neded.org/IBMrural.doc

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3609546

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BMD/is_85_8/ai_85468945

http://assist.neded.org/

How as a community how can we attract software professionals to support

these IBM requirements. What form of software backoffice incubator needs

to be developed?

Sterling Computers is a great success story. Here is an industry that

is inexpensive to support when it comes to City infrastructure,

e.g., no pollution, low utility requirements, little transportation

increase needs, while emphasizing the use of knowledge based employees.

We need to replicate these types of innovative business models!

How does Jay Knobbe's list of 1,500 graduates working elsewhere give

us insight and a pool of candidates? Do we know someone from the Peter Kiewit

Center that is educating and helping to place these new professionals?