Since their quality can be outstanding that is going to be hard.
American Express is now more then 75% sourced in India where they have
PhD programmers getting and happy with $7 per hour.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 17:12, Jim wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 17:04, David Mandala wrote:
> > I can't and won't compete with $7 per hour which is what some overseas
> > programmers are getting (and they are happy with it). I don't think
> > their rates are going to come up much in the near future so I don't
> > think it is going to level out.
> > 
> > That said there are lots of small business that can't go of shore, I
> > plan on working with them when possible.
> > 
> 
> An old, but still valid, axiom in the business world states that if you
> can't compete on price, compete on quality.
> 
> > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 16:37, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > > Unlike in other industries I don't think this has to destroy us. Our
> > > rates will come down. Their will come up. We're too plugged into a
> > > global economy for it to stay to imbalanced. (pssst this would be a good
> > > conversation to have in the consulting corner forum of carlparrish.com).
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