>>Hi Terry,
>>We have the same experience last summer. Indian company with office in London hire us to develop ASP.Net/C#& SQLServer IS for UK marketing company, because of lack of qualified staff. They paid our regular rates.
>>If USA, UK, etc. managers with washed minds think that the cheapest outsourcing solution will be provided by Indian company, because their hourly rate is lower we will subcontract Indian companies. According system could appears that local companies with higher rates are more cost effective than indians.
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>Jordan,
>How true - learning not to confuse cost with value is an important tool to real "businessmen". You would have thought they had figured it out by now!:)

Last six month I stopped to mention our hourly rate and bargain how much will cost the project. Offering fixed cost with in-house developed components and framework, with high productivity we beat all low cost indian offers, but when I mention our hourly rate they said that they couldn't afford to work with us. One UK CEO argue that he couldn't afford to offer more than 75GBP/daily rte, but he never compare how many days we will work on the system and how many is other offers
Let's stop discussion how smart are some nowadays manegers