A second look at offshoring

[Zola <zola -at- zolaweb -dot- com>]

Companies Finding Some Computer Jobs Best Done in U.S.

By EDUARDO PORTER

Published: April 28, 2004

ven as the prospect of high-skilled American jobs moving to low-wage 
countries like India ignites hot political debate, some entrepreneurs are 
finding that India's vaunted high-technology work force is not always as 
effective as advertised.

"For three years we tried all kinds of models, but nothing has worked so 
far," said the co-founder and chief technology officer of Storability 
Software in Southborough, Mass. After trying to reduce costs by contracting 
out software programming tasks to India, Storability brought back most of 
the work to the United States, where it costs four times as much, and hired 
more programmers here. The "depth of knowledge in the area we want to build 
software is not good enough" among Indian programmers, the executive said.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/technology/28SOUR.html

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