Running a decentralized workforce in the 90s was not viable for most people for obvious reasons. Today, tools are better, and more widely available, but more i

Running a decentralized workforce in the 90s was not viable for most people for obvious reasons. Today, tools are better, and more widely available, but more importantly the overall demographic of the technical workforce has improved by orders of magnitude. This is the foundation of why outsourcing is able to be an attractive (and more importantly viable) solution. In the 1990s finding competent well rounded developers was throwing darts at a board. With the advent of modern frameworks and standards, and the increase in global capacity for technology development, outsourcing now makes a lot of sense, for a lot of people. (article should have mentioned online collaboration specifically as well).