Off-Shore Engineering

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Author: Peter Buechler
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Subject: Off-Shore Engineering
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 05:25 pm, David Mandala wrote:
> 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.
>


This is true. But their overhead that brings them up to $20/hour. Then if we
specialize in things that are best done face to face, we could charge
somewhat more than that. Perhaps we could write specifications and tests,
then ship the implementation off to India.

Or maybe I should go to law school :-(