A recent Information Week article notes that outsourcing will cease to be profitable by 2027 due to rising IT salaries in third-world countries, but what makes people think this debate is only about money?
Saving money is certainly--for the moment--a perceived benefit of outsourcing IT functions to places like India, China and Malaysia, but this myopic view fails to consider some serious issues. For example, what about the fact that intellectual property laws in far-flung nations are a joke, leaving information open to piracy or even misuse that results in harm to the United States? And what about the fact that some of these nations are not exactly bosom buddies with the U.S.?
Are we to ignore the obvious security concerns in the name of the almighty dollar? It astounds me that U.S. corporations are so money hungry that they will sacrifice anything--even national security--to make just a few more dollars so they can pay out those hefty bonuses to their top executives. Haven't we given away enough top secret information to the Chinese under the reign of Bill Clinton?
Am I making too much of this? Well, blogsters, only you can answer that question, and I invite you to do so here.