Be aware of a culture that seems to have rapid turnaround. With both China and India, I've seen 5-6 developers quit within 6 months to a year; whereas, in the

Be aware of a culture that seems to have rapid turnaround. With both China and India, I've seen 5-6 developers quit within 6 months to a year; whereas, in the U.S., there are several people still with me after 10 years. You can get work done, just make sure it's something relatively quick that can be done in isolation. Never spend time training people overseas; it may take several weeks for them to learn some big system before they can be productive, and if they leave a few months later then most of that time will have been wasted.