Many large companies have dev centers offshore. If you count them as outsourcing, I have seen very good examples of reducing costs while maintaining the existin

Many large companies have dev centers offshore. If you count them as outsourcing, I have seen very good examples of reducing costs while maintaining the existing product quality (I say maintaining, because it was never great to start with) Concrete example: one of the largest travel industry outfits has several hundred people in Poland, and they do excellent work. IMHO In contrast, from the 20 or so projects that I have seen outsourced to India, I have not yet experienced a success story. But I have seen many examples of excellent Indian developers here. When I asked them about the difference, the common answer is.. " If you are good, why would you stay there to make on 1/3 of what you can make here! " Finally, Lately I've seen several senior engineers cashing out from here and returning to their countries to much favourable employment conditions.