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CIO Magazine On Offshore IT

Posted by Hemos on from the contentious-issue dept.

lpq wrote to us with a reference to the cover article from this month's CIO Magazine that talks about the off-shore movement of IT from its traditional bulwarks to the developing world. A selection from the article:" Think again. There are real costs associated with shipping your IT department (or a portion of it) overseas. Our Special Report covers the Backlash from a growing political storm as well as the Hidden Costs you should be aware of before you join the stampede overseas. "

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  1. Farming out != Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've done maintence programming and support for a few applications that have been farmed out overseas. Based on the limited experience with only a few development teams I've come to the decision that farming all this stuff out is a bad idea. They frankly cannot program very well and now we're going back and recoding huge portions of the application in house because they do such a bad job. No version control systems, poor development cycles, hardly no testing, desire to work on the live production servers to make "quick" changes. It's a PITA.

  2. ComputerWorld article on same subject... by Maditude · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's another article I just read this morning at ComputerWorld:
    IT's Global Itinerary: Offshore Outsourcing Is Inevitable. An interesting read, and they do make it seem pretty inevitable.

  3. Re:Americans by Bendebecker · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.naplesnews.com/03/09/business/d961376a. htm
    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_24 /c3736054.htm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/439595.stm
    http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/26/077.html
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/08/30/ilo.st udy/
    I found that an even more recent (2003) study that says south koreans work more hours but are not as productive.

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  4. Re:Salaries are just way too high by el_gordo101 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The guys climbing the poles for Verizon make over 75k/yr, at least according to their recent ad campaign.

    Those ad campaings were produced by Verizon in order to sway public sympathy away from their (unionized) workers that were about to strike in order to protect their benefits. My wife, brother-in-law, and cousin are all techs with Verizon, and, believe me, they do not make anything approaching $75k/year. Possibly with 30 or so years with the company and 15-20 hours of over-time each week (if it is available), then they might the approach $75k. A better estimate would be around $40k/year. Hell, I wish my wife made $75k, my life would be much easier ;)

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  5. Re:It was *always* about money savings... by Bendebecker · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was really about money, why has Hp fired 1000's workers, replaced them with indian workers, and then went out and bought 2 $60 million dollar jets to replace their 1999 ones?

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