The business exodus to the third world is continuing. Vitesse announced a new R&D center in India based on cheap engineers and round-the-clock capability while India itself is investing in building what they refer to as a semiconductor ecosystem. Meanwhile, IBM is firing here and hiring like numbers over there as reported by EE Times. Finally, Dell is hiring 1,000 workers in even more remote Oklahoma.

Wait a minute, let me check a map here...

That's right; Oklahoma is still in the U.S. Is this an anomaly? Not really. The interesting thing to note is that the India jobs I described are what are normally creative work that some seem to think are the God-given province of Americans while call-center jobs are the original outsourcing fodder. Dell is not hiring out of any "Buy American" ideals, they are doing so because those people have the language and technical skills that are necessary and are cheaper due to the (all kidding aside) relatively remote location.

The lesson here is that you adapt or die. There aren't many safe places to hide anymore.

Larry Mittag