Re: Industry versus academia

[eli rosenberg <address@hidden>]

I think a lot of companies, especially in
the non-tech industries, are solving this
problem by developing their software in India.
Salaries for developers are about 12-20% as
high as in the U.S., so costs are cut at least
in half.  Plus the time shift allows for round
clock development, meaning that managers
or QA in the U.S. can submit a bug report at 5pm
and by 8am the next morning it might be fixed.

-Eli


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> From: Daniel Weinreb <DLWeinreb@attbi.com>

>  Real live customers, such as major 
> financial companies,
> have a real problem that really hurts them: too much of the software 
> work that they
> want done requires too high a level of skill sets.  They cannot get 
> applications written
> fast enough because they cannot find or cannot afford the kind of 
> wizards needed to
> write such applications.  They need to get things set up so that they 
> don't need so
> many wizards.  Please note that someone who is less than a wizard does not
> deserve to be called "dumb"; there's plenty of room for being quite 
> intelligent
> without being a system programming wizard.
> 
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