Manufacturing Industry
Observations on offshore software development: it's boom time ... for some.(SOFTWARE 2005 CONFERENCE)
Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2005 by Baer, Tony
Software industry executives who gathered for Sandhill Group's Software 2005 conference--held in late April in Santa Clara, Calif.--found the topics of offshore development and outsourcing hard to miss. Hosting the event, Sandhill's M.R. Rangaswami, president of the San Francisco-based management advisory group, cited figures showing Indian software exports exceeding $17 billion in 2004--roughly a 25-percent jump over the year before.
Software vendors, like corporate IT organizations, are drawn to offshore strategies due to economics, as well as the advantages of drawing on flexible labor pools that can deliver software quicker than internal organizations bound by hiring limits.
"When development organizations grow to 20 to 40 people, we...
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