Since you're thinking towards the future, think also to the time when you will probably have to move an awful lot of your stuff back in-house, which might be mu

Since you're thinking towards the future, think also to the time when you will probably have to move an awful lot of your stuff back in-house, which might be much sooner than you'd expect. Plenty of companies which outsourced in a big way some years back have already been through a similar cycle. A former Fortune 500 employer of mine went through the outsourcing boomerang. Now I understand that they have big plans to move everything to the cloud within the next two years. Knowing their systems like I do, and knowing that the CEO who is driving this is fairly noobish (note that I said CEO rather than CIO), I don't think this plan is going to work out too well for them. But given that since I left they've had to file bankruptcy, and in doing so involuntarily dropped to about half of what they were before (employees, assets, etc.), I guess this is just par for the course for them now.