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To: GST who wrote (158537)	7/14/2003 2:15:18 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Since I live in SV and work in enterprise software which has pretty much turned into an Indian business at this point, I am dealing with all the expectations and fears of people on this issue on the front lines. I am in favor of offshoring based on what I see now. The scariest thing for US software businesses is that we make the Detroit in the 70s mistake and overpay our workers and produce bad products. This offshoring brings the costs inline. One problem with software is we never figured out how to automate the production, and as the internet has added all this complexity you need a ton of chiefs to get a product out the door. When I was in enterprise software R&D at a workerbee level, we had client/server. That meant 2 teams, the client team and the server team, and a QA dept, etc. Now- with the internet we have "n-tier" architecture, that means management for every tier! Server team, middleware or app server team, webserver team, somebody on the user interface, the team building team so everybody doesn't fight with each other... this is totally out of control and way too costly. India can help with this. My guess is that the big companies outsource and the spry agile newcomers continue business here. Just the natural progression of things. Its hard on job seekers in the bay area though, in the short term.