IBM is staffing up in low-cost countries. To know one's surprise two of those countries are India and China. One more country is Brazil and IBM is also taking aim at Eastern Europe. 

But just how much is IBM depending on these countries and for what?

Eastern Europe  - IBM has grown from 2,900 workers to 5,125 workers since 2003.

Eastern Europe provides data centers, service skills centers and Linux development labs.

The work force in Brazil has doubled since 2003 - 4,500 to 9,000 and they are providing data centers, call centers and Linux development.

The Chinese work force has grown nearly 75% from 4,200 to 7,200 and IBM depends on them for software development, data centers, demonstration research and other research.

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