India faces offshore IT skills crisis by 2010

I'm sitting next to one of the liars.: I'm a contractor at a big microprocessor manufactoring firm that starts with the letter 'I'. Sort of by accident, my cube is surrounded by project managers. I overhear their conversations constantly and all they talk about is readily available, cheap engineering resources overseas.

So, I get to hear it straight from the liars mouths.

What I heard this morning shows how cheap corporations are getting. Since many Russians are getting into the pair programming thing, this manager was wondering about the possibility of getting a pair of Russian software engineers for the price of one. The way he put it was "10 bucks a head instead of 20.". This is what we're up against.

-Splekem has spoken; Posted by: Jake Danger Posted on: 12/14/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Welcome India zmud | 12/14/05

Re: Welcome India mbraincell@... | 12/14/05

2010 is a long time away. HypnoToad | 12/14/05

Ah, so thats why. Jake Danger | 12/14/05

CIOs Lying Vicissidude | 12/14/05

Both India and China voska | 12/14/05

Re: Both India and China mbraincell@... | 12/14/05

Re: Your all missing one point mbraincell@... | 12/14/05

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