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Story: Romania vies for India's outsourcing crown

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We have played with ousourcing SW design & maintenance in India and China since 1996. In 2001 we gave up because of incredible high costs of outsourcing. A SW project requires design, verification, integration and especially coordination. Although the salaries in China & India are 2-4 times lower than in North America, the number of iterations to accept a project segment is 6-10 times larger than here. As for the quality of the code there is none: the code came several times not compiled, without coments, structure and of course not tested. The costs to understnd, debug, correct, retest become astronomical. In the last year we ousourced part of the design to Romania: these guys seem to be quite professionals.

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