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>> outsourcing/offshoring would eliminate hands-on developer jobs in US/UK and other "expensive" countries Remember companies like EDS? During the 80's and 90'
by bluedino 5y ago
>> outsourcing/offshoring would eliminate hands-on developer jobs in US/UK and other "expensive" countries
Remember companies like EDS? During the 80's and 90's all the development and support for the 'big' companies in the USA was done by companies like EDS. They employed hundreds of thousands of people. Then in 2000's they started going to India etc.
- brianmcc 5y agoOh totally. But hands-on tech jobs in the USA aren't eliminated, the sector is buoyant! Colleagues in India feel like colleagues not "replacements" these days.
- kelnos 5y agoAnd yet there's still no shortage of developer jobs in the US. In any case, did EDS succeed? I had forgotten about them until your mention. Just because they offshored to India, it doesn't mean it worked and their business is flourishing. I think the model has changed, at any rate. Companies like EDS are mostly obsolete. Sure, professional/technical services companies are still around in the form of IBM and their ilk, but they're not even remotely the dominant way of doing things.
- bluedino 5y ago>> Companies like EDS are mostly obsolete. How so? They were bought and sold a few times and sort of exist as DXC right now. They claim to have 134,000 employees, I get approached by their recruiters a couple times a year.
- selimthegrim 5y agoThey are insourcing to places like Louisiana