I have worked with teams in the US, Russia, Bulgaria and India and honestly the percentage of success has been in a band.
A lot of time, things that should not be outsourced get outsourced because some 'C' level guy decides for short term benefits and a disaster is inevitable.
I have also seen several projects fail when you expect consulting services, as the offshore vendors claim, whilst actually they provide programming services.
On the contrary, well planned long term projects have always been successful.
I am trying to hire 'quality' resources in the silicon valley and with overall costs of $150k per person including overheads and also non availability on time, Outsourcing immediately appeals as I get atleast 50 emails/phonecalls soliciting offshoring. These guys sell well.
US is the epitome of capitalism. A similar situation in the 1960s forced massive investment in primary education and schooling that paved the way for US dominance in technology
With a population of only 285 million and the large availability of resources, one of the answers is to allow unlimited visa in the field of education to allow US to continue to keep its dominance
And if China were to float the yuan, their competitiveness would vanish. India on the contrary with its spiralling labour costs will loose its significant advantage in the next 3 to 5 years
Over the last several years, RedHat has established a viable model in Open Source Software. The intial hype and comparison to MS, billion dollars of capitalization, fortunately did not deter them from focussing on their goals.
What this indicates is to infuse funds, and a plan that provides for building a base of customers and a community. Today funding in the OSS arena seems to be attracting attention, the last notable one being spikesource
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I have worked with teams in the US, Russia, Bulgaria and India and honestly the percentage of success has been in a band. A lot of time, things that should not be outsourced get outsourced because some 'C' level guy decides for short term benefits and a disaster is inevitable. I have also seen several projects fail when you expect consulting services, as the offshore vendors claim, whilst actually they provide programming services. On the contrary, well planned long term projects have always been successful. I am trying to hire 'quality' resources in the silicon valley and with overall costs of $150k per person including overheads and also non availability on time, Outsourcing immediately appeals as I get atleast 50 emails/phonecalls soliciting offshoring. These guys sell well.
US is the epitome of capitalism. A similar situation in the 1960s forced massive investment in primary education and schooling that paved the way for US dominance in technology With a population of only 285 million and the large availability of resources, one of the answers is to allow unlimited visa in the field of education to allow US to continue to keep its dominance And if China were to float the yuan, their competitiveness would vanish. India on the contrary with its spiralling labour costs will loose its significant advantage in the next 3 to 5 years
Over the last several years, RedHat has established a viable model in Open Source Software. The intial hype and comparison to MS, billion dollars of capitalization, fortunately did not deter them from focussing on their goals. What this indicates is to infuse funds, and a plan that provides for building a base of customers and a community. Today funding in the OSS arena seems to be attracting attention, the last notable one being spikesource
very mediocre and how do the slash dot editors let these happen.