The Changing Face of Offshore Programming

teambpsi writes "BusinesWeek Online has an opt-ed piece on the trend in offshore programming pricing going up, with domestic rates going down. As a contractor, I've seen the downward pressure on contract gigs now to rates lower than what I was charging over five years ago. Dell Computers recently announced that it was bringing its customer service back on-shore, I wonder if this might be the start of some bigger trend -- maybe 'buy american' could be our new battle cry ;)"

Comments

Re:Suing slashdot over slashdot.de!!!

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

The americans are still interested in americaizing us with american news and stole the de-domain.

And now you want to use the name recognition of slashdot for another site. Its creators have spend their time and effords to build it up from scratch and I can understand they wouldn't like to discover someone else to use a simular name to steal traffic away from them.
If you want a German news site, then go ahead and invent a name for it yourself or start negotiating. But at least show some respect for other peoples work.
(Put "IMHO" at the appropriated places)

levelling the playingfield, Hummer madness

[MarkWatson]

Like some other posters, I have watched my consulting rates drop drastically after the the dot-com bust, then slowly rise to about two-thirds of what I used to charge.

In the U.S., I think that we as a country have been going a little crazy with materialism and greed - there is some justice for salaries to slightly equalize with developing countries.

a little off topic, but: what is the deal with the tax break for large gas guzzelling vehicles? I was amazed at an article in the Arizona Republic this mornig of local Hummer and SUV sales sky-rocketing because of a Bush-$100,000 tax break for any 'business' (own a motel? - get a free Hummer!) to buy large fuel inefficient vehicles.

I may be a little off base here, but I don't think so: I believe that our addiction to buying foreign oil with borrowed money (making our foreign debt crisis occur much sooner, rather than later) is a worst threat to our national security than terrorism.

Anyway, Happy New Year! I wish you all health and happiness.

-Mark

Re:Huge cultural differences, not just accent

[hesiod]

> you americans

Any statement started like this is immediately wrong. It is just as wrong for you (or anyone) to lie about Americans as it is for any one of us to lie about Hindis. Stop being a hypocrite.