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![]() Cost savings from outsourcing gets plowed into new business opportunities that generate high-skill IT jobs. ![]() By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee InformationWeek ![]() Offshore outsourcing is projected to grow over the next decade, but so are U.S. IT job opportunities. And many of the new jobs will come from businesses that companies launch as they achieve cost savings from outsourcing, according to a study by the Association for Computing Machinery, a group focused on advancing computing as a science and profession. IT opportunities are expected to grow in higher-skill areas such as software engineering, application development, and research and development. But an infrastructure is needed that provides training, education, and increased investment in R&D, along with government policies that "eliminate barriers to the free flow of talent," the study says.
The number of new students enrolling in U.S. undergrad computer science programs fell from a peak of 25,000 in 2000 to 12,500 in 2004, Vardi says. Without a pool of talent from which companies can fill IT jobs, the migration of those jobs offshore could be a self-fulfilling prophecy, Vardi says. Sun Microsystems is among Silicon Valley employers finding it tough to fill highly skilled tech jobs. Says Kim Jones, Sun's VP of global education and research: "It's getting harder to find people with a solid education plus critical skill sets."
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U.S. Cuts Demand For Google Data, Judge Is Favorable
![]() The government on Tuesday reduced the number of Google searches it wanted data on to just 50,000 Web addresses and roughly 5,000 search terms, down from the millions or potentially billions of addresses it had initially sought. ![]() ![]()
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