>>>>>Some software companies are leaving India - Here's the link.
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>>>>>http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/5ef86d65-9fbb-4ca0-98eb-91518b9c5931.html
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>>>>Are you surprised?
>>>>Some of the indians companies outsource their development to US and EU countries.
>>>>If you like to share some experience talk with Terry Thurber ID #029227
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>>>Yes, I am surprised. It was unexpected, because wages there are very low. But, now they seem to be climbing.
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>>IFAIK the biggest problem is the employee turnover. The good programmers jump from employer to employer with higher and higher salaries. This again means that the companies must frequently hire new people who must more or less start from scratch, or spend a long time analyzing the former programmer's source code. This again means that the time to bring a new application to the market is far longer than expected, and time is money. I suspected that this would happen many years, and it really amazes me how naive the american companies must have been.
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>Tore;
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>Naive may be the correct term but I think that greed is the motivation. Where the promise of greater profits through a reduction in salaries is involved all logic is dismissed. Do not be surprised if a company that goes through this experience does so again with a new CEO. CEO’s are “movers and shakers”.
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>The problem with those of us in the trenches is that “we just do not see the big picture”! :)
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>Tom

The problem with new CEO's is that they usually only look at what the CEO before him did, and change the operation with that in mind. If he had checked what the CEO two steps back did, and which failed, it is too often exactly what the new CEO does, and which he pushes as "the new direction". History has a tendency to repeat itself, everyone has to make the same mistakes.