In my experience, outsourced code is almost always harder to maintain and I haven't seen example of successful outsourcing of ongoing code maintenance. I'm sur

In my experience, outsourced code is almost always harder to maintain and I haven't seen example of successful outsourcing of ongoing code maintenance. I'm sure there's a lot of variance, but I don't think "outsourced everything" will be practical for most software businesses that place importance on quality of service. Outsourcing can be great for developing a green-field new initiative, but at some point the in house folks are going to need to learn the new codebase so they can fix bugs, scale, and keep the lights on.