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Cheap outsourcing is probably going to start looking pretty good to the management-types. Quantity over quality...

• ardit33 18y ago
  outsourcing has been disastrous so far. We have tried three times in my company, and with bad results. Doesn't save money, or time in the long run, especially in engineering. It makes sense only in things like design, logos, etc, but not in your core business. I would fully recommend to all my competitors to outsource their engineering as much as they can.
  • icey 18y ago
    I tell this to everyone: In the 90s, I was terrified of outsourcing. It started becoming very popular and there were quite a lot of people declaring the end of the American developer as a result. Then I found out I was going to be working with an offshore team during a project for a large financial firm. The offshore company that this financial firm was using was reputed to be one of the best in the business. When the code came back, I was no longer concerned about outsourcing. If anything, there was a whole career to be had resolving the issues in the cut and paste code that got sent back. Never under-estimate the damage that the language barrier can do to a product.