Hi Jason.

Your post is entirely based on the assumption that outsourced development firms in India, in Eastern Europe, and so forth, are somehow inherently lacking in design/architecture skills. Besides being a little insulting it's also wrong.

Amongst other counter arguments one could make: just look around this forum and ask yourself where many of the smartest members are from (or come from). Then in India they have the highest number of degreed people per capita of any country. These are clever people and they are hungry for business. Don't equate lower price/cost of development with poorer quality. And lastly, its amazing how much "design/architecture" can actually be taught!

Innovation is different, I agree, and this quality seems to be unevenly distributed across humanity in any field and the west has had a good piece of that pie in the technology arena. But how many people who make their living in software development are the innovators at the top of the pyramid? By definition the majority will be coders who implement the designs made by the top. All of this work is subject to outsourcing. Even MS has done this ...

And ultimately, I believe even design and architeture will be completely out-sourced. They (the outsoured companies) are very smart, very clever, and very hungry. They will only get better at this work. Unless you are one of the innovators you are only kidding yourself if you think you have medium- to long-term job security as a coder.

imo.


>Nah, don't see it happening... not on a grand scale anyway. The only work that will move will be the grunt work, the code monkey work. Any decision maker daring to move their company's grand design/architecture halfway across the world from their operation deserves the utter chaos that will eventually reign. Someone will do it, surely... and they will get to find out how golden is their parachute.
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>Good design mentality is hard to find. Aware and alert CEOs, CIOs, CFOs won't make that mistake.
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> but rather why haven't you moved to India yet?