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Actually, more important to the deteriorating economics of outsourcing: the dollar is down substantially since 2002. http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/US/M
All I can read from this article is US developers are skilled and expensive, while non-US developers are non-skilled and inexpensive.. I might agree with expensive/inexpensive but who says US developers are more skilled than others? On what grounds, study, statistics can anyone claim that?
My experience with several Indian teams at different companies bears out the article. They didn't have the same level of education that a developer gets at a good US engineering/CS school. It was more like at a JC level, a few months of Java then turned loose on the clients. The ones I worked with had several years of work experience, but not the depth of knowledge that one would expect from top notch locals. A lot o…
Your $40 number seems grounded in reality though. I've never worked in the outsourcing business, but Ravi claims about $40 is what you need to pay for a good coder. [http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/05/faq-from-my-mail-box-1...].