You are definitely more cost-effective than a programmer here in the U.S. The only programmers charging $25-30/hr here are either in very small towns (few contracts to pick from) or inexperienced. Having seen your work, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a customer in the U.S. contact you for development work (I would even recommend it). However, in some cases, it is still preferable to have a developer that can be 'on-site' for some systems and during some phases of the project. For that reason alone, you will still be preferable for some work within your country as local programmers here will also be preferable for those jobs here. I don't see all programming moving to outsourcing but a combination of offshore/outsourcing may be a reality.


>It is not possible to train or retrain programmer in FoxPro for 40hr.
>Standardly we spent 6 months for that.
>Fox is quite diffrent that VB and this make him efficient.
>I am not wondered. I have a few clients form Australia, UK and US, which transfer to us new development because of the same reasons, which you share.
>In some moment it appears that we are more cost effective, nevertheless that our hourly rate is $25-30
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>>>I wonder how many good VFP developers there are in India?
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>>I'll give you my experience..........
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>>The coding for the application I support (mainframe people don't understand that we are analysts, designers, coders all rolled into one) was outsourced to India to be supported by someone that had 5 years experience in MS languages but no Fox training. In a PRG (really a clone of a FPW2.6 SPR file) there is a line
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@ 2,5 GET m.ocper;
>>PICTURE "@^ 80%;70%;60%;50%";
>>etc.
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>>I sent him a message.
>>1. Store "@^ 80%;70%;60%;50%" in a variable
>>2. If the function PFO_EXCEPT() returns true, add ";40%;30%" to the variable
>>3. Use that variable in the PICTURE clause
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>>This, apparantly, was beyond his capabilities.
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>>Granting that he had no prior exposure to fox, he had taken a 40 hour training program in VFP 6. I still fear for my users whenever they need a "real" programming change to the system.
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>>SET MASSIVE BITTERNESS OFF. (Yeah right)