If you have not heard of outsourcing IT work to India, then where have
you been the last 10 years? Companies began to do this in the late
80s - early 90s.
There are also several VERY PROMINENT US companies that have moved
their entire Help desk/customer service functions to India. My
current client has outsourced their next generation, hot shot, "core
business" system to India. I have looked at a little of the product.
Good luck - every bad practice you could think of in designing pretty
simple DB2 tables is present.
I truly cannot think of a major project outsourced to India which has
been even moderately successful. That dosen't mean there arn't any,
and I am coming from a mainframe perspective. Remember that IBM
didn't even do business in India for over 20 years, so the Indian
experience pool in IBM mainframe is pretty shallow. Talk about
betting the future of your company!!!
bchorng_at_yahoo.com (Bass Chorng) wrote in message news:<bd9a9a76.0204081412.c068a20_at_posting.google.com>...
> tincanman9_at_yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<3cb075d7.3963078_at_netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
> >
> > The location of course was India. Try this for rates and it will make
> > your hair stand up. The Indian consulting company gets $15/hour for
> > each body, the person (programmer, etc...) gets.....get ready (it
> > shocked me) $3/HOUR! How are people here ever going to compete with
> > that? IT in this country is doomed.
> >
>
> I have never heard IT outsourcing to India. I know HW and SW engineering
> doing so, but not IT. I hope your example is an isolated case. The simple
> reason is IT usually stays wherever the data center is located. I doubt
> how well people can administrate the infrastructure remotely using
> unreliable phone lines there. The other difficulty is time zone difference.
> India is exactly 12.5 hours different than California. It is
> difficult, but not impossible, for them to staff accordingly.
>
> As to compition here with H1 labors, I am not sure they are *cheap*.
> Most big companies pay them with the same rate. It is not worth the
> risk for these companies to be entitled with labor discrimination.
>
> In fact I know quite a few H1 DBAs who have been laid off for a year
> or so and still could not find a job. The reason is when there is
> ample labor in the market, no one wants to hire someone with a hiatus
> of H1 status. They don't want to get into the legal process and
> they don't want to pay for the legal fees to apply green card for
> those people which could cost up to $5K.
>
> These H1 DBAs got popular in the late 90's because of shortage of
> such skill in the market. During that time, I did not see any
> problem for U.S. citizens to get a decent job as there were more
> demand than supply. Now during recession, I see more U.S. citizens
> finding jobs than H1 holders because of above reasons.
>
> The only thing that disturbs me a little bit is there are some Indian
> operated conculting companies out there *only* hiring Indians. That is
> obviously illegal.
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 11:35:04 CDT
