Outsourcing doesn't suck in all cases, which this article seems to imply. For example, I was maintaining cobol apps on a mainframe that were about 20 years old.

Outsourcing doesn't suck in all cases, which this article seems to imply. For example, I was maintaining cobol apps on a mainframe that were about 20 years old. Recently I read a news story that gov. payroll systems in California run entirely on cobol, and also that cobol programmers are impossible to come by. In India, the big firms actually train new grads in cobol etc., if the job requires it. So, now, what is better, just stop paying the gov. of california employees, or outsource the payroll processing to india? outsourcing is not just about money, there's more to it.