Dell rolls outs first desktop computer from India plant

[OhioChick]

Chennai, July 30: Computer major Dell Inc., today rolled out its first desktop computer from its India plant at Sriperumbudur, about 60 km from here.

"This factory is unbelievably strategic for us in India. This will help us improve our competitive advantage in India," Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Dell India said at the function to mark the commencement of operations from the plant.

This is Dell's third plant in Asia Pacific after China and Malaysia.

Dell had earlier this year launched a facility in Brazil and another one in Poland will be opened later this year, he said.

To a query, Rajan, while declining to provide any financials, said this plant will help reduce costs, which would be passed on to customers.

"This plant will help reduce delivery lead time by 40-50 per cent and also reduce costs. We will pass on the savings to the customers," he said.

The facility,India Customer Center(ICC) will employ 150 persons initially and would grow over a period of time. The plant has been set up on 50 acre of land spanning 1,10,000 sq.ft with space to expand further as the company grows, K Y Yong, GM, Manufacturing Operations said.

"The ICC has a planned investment of USD 30 million over a period of five years with an initial capacity of four lakh desktops per year and will go up to about 2.5 million units over a period of time," he added.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=385974&ssid=53&ssname=Companies%20and%20Commodities&sid=BUS&sname=LATEST-BUSINESS-NEWS

Lovely.

[Double T]

1. Americans had better start thinking about immigrating to India........

and China where ALL of our former and current jobs have gone or will go. America is starting to feel like a third world nation.

[OhioChick]

2. India doesn't want Americans

coming there.

Less number of US students coming to India for studies

Chalsa (WB), Dec 18: Less number of American students were coming to India for studies because of the "inordinate delay" in getting Indian visas, US embassy public affairs minister counsellor Larry Schwartz claimed here today.

"For some reason or the other, may be bureaucratic process, American students are not getting Indian visas while Indian students are getting US visas and all help to study in America," Schwartz said, addressing a three-day conference for Fulbright scholars in South Asia. "This year 30 American students could not avail Indian visas as they were issued very late," he said.

Another reason for less students coming here was the "interference" by Indian authorities in the choice of subjects of US students, Schwartz said.

He said delays in issuing Indian visas was "unfortunate", especially when indo-us ties were getting stronger. The Fulbright, would shortly open a centre at R.E.C at Silchar in Assam soon to cover more areas in the north-eastern region to help more students get opportunities to study in America, he added.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=342876&sid=NAT&ssid=

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3. It is always a one way street and the USA is NEVER going or.........

participating in the right direction.

[dmallind]

4. Damn outsourcing. Companies should NOT

..be able to hire people in foreign countries!

http://www.tata.com/0_tata_worldwide/america/articles/20051007_tidings.htm

80 offices! 10,000 people! Just who do they think they are giving away jobs to foreigners! It even started over 60 years ago dammit!

[Double T]

5. What a PR SPIN machine.

[dmallind]

6. So.....

They DON'T employ 10000 people in their American offices? Damn that should be easy to get from their financial reports and cause a big fuss about outright lying! Let me know when you've done that and I'll sign the petition!

It's the company's own website by the way - what organization DOESN'T spin itself in the best light? Check any union website or Democratic candidate or group website or peace activist website - it's not all that likely that any of them post a dispassionate analysis of all their faults is it?

[Double T]

7. As American corporations sell off and sellout their own future........

Tata, India's largest conglomerate, will be there to buy them out; piecemeal or all at once. It will only be a matter of time before Tata relocates their acquisitions to lower labor wage nations outside the USA. Keep on SPINNING; you're either invested with them or work for them in some capacity.

As I was saying, who are you kidding, H1B visas and ALL!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3414816

[OhioChick]

8. Hillary.....A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Hillary Clinton stands up for Tatas, outsourcing

WASHINGTON: Former First Lady Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defended the general principles of free trade and outsourcing , while rejecting suggestions that she was allowing Indian info-tech major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to take away jobs from the state that elected her to the Senate.

The New York Senator was ambushed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs on his show, a daily outlet for anti-free trade rants, with questions about a TCS center she opened last year in Buffalo in upstate New York despite the company’s reputation as an 'outsourcer.'

"Of course, I know they outsource," Clinton retorted. "But they have also brought jobs and they intend to be a source of new jobs in the state."

Outsourcing works both ways, she told Dobbs and his constituency of anti-free traders who tried to corner her on the issue. While not minimizing the problems of job flight, she said free trade also provided opportunities for the US to attract jobs from around the world if they got the domestic diagnosis right.

The administration and the Congress needed to figure out changes in tax codes and trade laws to provide incentives for companies to keep jobs at home and create new jobs instead of blindly striking out against outsourcing.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/538674.cms

Senators form 'Friends of India'

WASHINGTON: A new bipartisan group called 'Friends of India' has been formed in the US Senate on the lines of the decade-old Congressional Caucus of India and Indian-Americans in the House of Representatives.

About 20 Senators have signed up for the new caucus, the first country-specific body in the Senate. It will be led by Texas Senator John Cornyn and co-chaired by New York’s Hillary Clinton.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/593175.cms


Offshoring Newsletters Hillary's name stands out

http://www.eng-i.com/E-Newsletters.htm

[Double T]

9. HRC has a REAL credibility problem here with questionable motives at best.

Hillary is a damn national and international corporatist that I will NOT support. Great thread OhioChick, Thanks!!