Awful 2009 Tech Spending Will Lead to Faster Rebound

A rebound for whom? It seems that tech spending does not benefit Americans anymore. The work that cannot be outsourced is done by immigrants (Indians for high-tech and Mexicans for the grunt work of installing cables, etc.); semiconductor manufacturing is in Taiwan, Malaysia, etc., assembly work is done in China, 'American' software development and support is done either in India or in the USA by Indians.

The rosey picture is for only the stock price in the future. The job is gone to India and we don't expect any rebound in the job market. The technology sector will be dead in US we will be importer of the crappy code from sweat shops in India. Unless there is policy change in Obama administration to keep the technology jobs in US and don't hand it to our worse enemy i.e the Indian outsourcing machine it will be too late and the end of technology lead which made us super power.

Yeah only rosey picture for gready CEOs or the outsourcers in India.

The owrk is being done by indians because the american is not able to do the same work, if thye would have done why would they allow indians to come into this field.

Follow the money and you'll find as the econominc engine in India heats up, commensurate wages will go up, raising the standard of living there. Americans simply have to get used to the fact that we can keep jobs here, but at a huge % loss in income.

Why should we trust Forrester's research? they were clearly very wrong about their initial forecast for 2009, why should we believe anything they say about 2010? I can see the article now:
"Forrester, last July, predicted that tech spending would rebound by X%, but now says it will actually fall Z%

A rebound in the amount of NRI's sending money our of the US to India, maybe. There aren't enough Americans in tech left for it to even make a dent.

Strategery is a xenophobe.

He does not even want Indians to come to the US to do these jobs. Nevermind that they pay taxes in the US, buy US goods, consume surplus US real estate vacancies, etc.

And after several years, these Indians become US citizens. Their children are BORN IN THE US. Thus, they, and their children, become Americans.

But strategery still opposes this. They are still 'outsiders' in his view, even the US-born children.

Strategery is a perfect example of an obsolete bigot who has been swept aside by the market forces of the 21st century.

Smith and Adam are also bigots, by the way.

What if Bobby Jindal runs for President? What if he actually wins? He is a Republican, you know.

do you guys even work in IT? I work with It Directors and CIOs all day long and maybe 1 out of every 50 is outsourcing. But what ever, keep waiting for the sky to fall

Many americans can do the IT work, but their wages have been drastically undercut by the Eastern Indians. They are master negotiators, and they have convinced a desperate American management that their prices would improve the American corporations bottom line.

And yes, once the Indians cost of living and an increase in Salary demands catch up, some other country will do the same to the indians.

Yes, we need to get real creative to compete! AND SOON!