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[Tom Dell'Aringa]

--- bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Think about it for a sec... the affect of
> Linux/Apache/Perl/PHp/etc... could
> easily have started in India.. and these have had major
> ramifications on the software biz...

At some point you have to talk about which roles are being affected
too - some more than others.

I'm primarily a UI person. I work with front end technologies usually
when I contract, although with some jobs I do the whole shot
including the db - but those are much smaller jobs.

I was just staffed on an enterprise level project for Sapient a
couple months ago. There were 4 site developers involved in the
project - all from the local area or Sapient US folks (site developer
being "front end" people).

On the other hand, the back end folks, the JSP and Java people, were
50% or more people here on work visas - India, Russian, etc. The QA
people were 90% US. There is a definite difference in roles and how
this affects you. 

You could probably break it up a bit more and probably others have
experiences along my comment.

I also agree with the statement made by another poster that left on
their own, foriegn teams present diminishing returns due to
cultural/language differences among other issues. One issue is that
often these people work not only for low rates, but horrific hours.
This degrades their work, and I have seen this first hand. And I have
had the problem of properly communicating with foriegn workers first
hand as well, that adds time to the process and sometimes makes for
mistakes that have to be gone back and fixed.

And like someone said, it's not a pair of sneakers you are fixing - a
mistake in the right place can really cost you!

FWIW

Tom


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