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Maybe, but that change was coming for 20 years, it just so happen that the marketing money only came in for the upgrade / rewrite more recently. I was first in
by thorin 5y ago
Maybe, but that change was coming for 20 years, it just so happen that the marketing money only came in for the upgrade / rewrite more recently.
I was first involved in outsourcing in 2000ish, I'm now actually working for an outsourcer, having always worked at local technical consultancies. It's actually the customers pushing for the offshoring not us, based on the perception of lower costs. They know that they have/had a huge number of experienced competent technical people who knew their business very well, but they were happy (at a high level) to risk that to untie themselves from that staff burden and reach mythical offshore productivities.
- giantg2 5y agoThey tried to replace our 8ish person team with 19 people. There was no cost savings.
- thorin 5y agoThat's why I say perception. Cost savings could be up to x4 but this makes no difference as if you can't do something, you can't do it with more people. If you got 100 people to write doom on the original hardware and Carmack wasn't one of them you wouldn't get it. Business software is generally a lot easier but even so, still issues...