This is a great thing for Oklahoma.

zdnet.com article- In another example of U.S. tech companies seeking to offer low-cost alternatives to offshoring, systems integrator Ciber has opened a facility in Oklahoma City.

Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Ciber said the Oklahoma City site is the first of several low-cost, "made in America" application development centers it plans to open in 2005 and 2006. The company said it aims to create roughly 200 new jobs in Oklahoma City and upwards of 1,000 new jobs around the country, as additional "Cibersites" open. The Oklahoma City Cibersite opened Thursday.

.... A number of U.S. tech companies are bidding to win dollars that might otherwise flow to lower-wage countries like India by locating domestic operations in places other than technology corridors such as San Francisco and Boston. Start-up Rural Sourcing, for example, has set up two facilities in Arkansas.

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