09/23/2004
High-tech start-ups feel push to outsource
The Boston Globe: Venture capitalists have a pressing new question for high-tech entrepreneurs who come looking for money: What's your India plan?
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07/29/2004
Is Offshore Outsourcing Politically Correct?
Forbes: In response to the growing debate over outsourcing of American jobs abroad, Adam Kolawa, Ph.D. and CEO of Parasoft Corporation -- a known leader and visionary in the software industry -- commented...
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03/30/2004
Outsourcing creates jobs, study says
CNN/Money: The outsourcing of prized information technology jobs overseas has created tens of thousands of new jobs in the United States, according to a recent study commissioned by the information technology industry.
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02/18/2004
An Atlas of Offshore Outsourcing
Business Week: Like it not, the use of overseas programmers isn't going to diminish. For entrepreneurs, here's a quick guide to which nations offer what.
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02/03/2004
Inside Outsourcing
Joe Vetrano, for the Technology Executive Club: Outsourcing has become a way of doing business because the financial benefits are compelling. This is especially true for Information Technology which represents one of, if not the greatest costs in business.
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02/02/2004
VCs Turn Their Gaze Offshore
Business Week: International outsourcing has been a way to cut costs. Now, investors are recognizing that it can also generate hefty profits.
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01/13/2004
India lobbies Asia to fight outsource backlash
News.com (Author: Dinesh C. Sharma): India is trying to enlist support of its Asian neighbors and friends to lobby against the outsourcing backlash spreading in Western countries. Information technology minister Arun Shourie used a conference of Asian IT ministers taking place in Hyderabad, India, to ask countries in the region to put up a united front against moves to stall offshore outsourcing.
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12/16/2003
Where did my IT job go?
News.com (Author: William V. Grebenik): I just received an e-mail from an old friend who left Colorado and moved to Silicon Valley to work three years ago. His first company laid him off about a year ago, but he found another position. Now, he says he is looking to return to the mountains. His company is moving software development to India and hardware production to China.
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12/15/2003
Startups take outsourcing to extremes
Rocky Mountain News (Author: Rachel Konrad): Solidcore Systems appears to be the quintessential Silicon Valley startup, with laptop-lugging, cube-dwelling workers huddling in glass conference rooms and jotting sales strategies on white boards.
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12/15/2003
Outsourcings offshore myth
News.com (Authors: George Gilbert and Rahul Sood): Critics have condemned offshore development as everything from shortsighted to un-American--but it may well wind up rescuing the U.S. software industry.
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10/03/2003
Sharpen skills to keep U.S. tech edge
CNET: Seizing on the latest technologies will allow U.S. information technology workers and the U.S. economy overall to guard against the detrimental effects of globalization, a panel of experts said Friday.
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09/17/2003
Labor activists picket outsourcing event
CNET: two-day conference instructing companies on moving technology jobs and other work overseas drew picketers, in one of the first San Francisco Bay Area protests over a growing trend that's shaking up the entire computer industry.
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09/11/2003
India has a new outsourcing rival--Romania?
CNET: The rising costs for U.K. companies that provide and use Indian offshore information technology services could drive businesses to cheaper locations, such as Eastern Europe, according to a new report.
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05/01/2003
Scheduling -- an inherently flawed process
Embedded.com (Jack Ganssle): The March 2003 issue of Software Development Magazine ran a letter from a reader who is disturbed by scheduling practices advocated by the eXtreme Programming (XP) community. He wrote that his company does contract work for a firm fixed price and wondered how one uses XP in that environment. How does one come up with a schedule and cost using XP? Columnist Robert Martin replied by (properly) disparaging the waterfall method, in which developers create a complete design and then a schedule. He noted that it generally does not work in the real world. Unstable requirements and unknown issues conspire to destroy any schedule derived from a process of up-front design.
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04/03/2003
That Championship Season, in Code
New York Times: YANG YIN, a 21-year-old computer student from China, was fidgety, slightly bewildered, it seemed, by his surroundings. Sitting alone at a computer, one of dozens in the cavernous and opulent Beverly Hilton ballroom, he was working on some code, just flexing his brain a bit to relax and prepare for the next morning's competition. "The U.S. is very clean," he said in response to a reporter's question about how he liked it here. "But the California sun is too shiny."
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12/30/2002
Cisco Director of Engineering talks about their R&D efforts in India
cisco.com: As the head of Cisco R&D in India, Samu Devarajan oversees an extensive operation that has contributed to almost every technology developed by Cisco within the last two years. Recently News@Cisco spoke with Devarajan about Cisco's Bangalore facility and its role in Cisco's overall R&D efforts.
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12/12/2002
U.S. firms move IT overseas
CNET (news.com): Under pressure from overseas rivals, U.S. companies selling information technology services have a new mantra: If you can't beat them, join them.
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11/05/2002
Perspective: Kofi Annans IT challenge to Silicon Valley
News.com: The new information and communications technologies are among the driving forces of globalization. They are bringing people together, and bringing decision makers unprecedented new tools for development. At the same time, however, the gap between information "haves" and "have-nots" is widening, and there is a real danger that the world's poor will be excluded from the emerging knowledge-based global economy.
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03/11/2002
Boulder area tops in U.S. for software employment
Denver Business Journal: For the third year in a row, the Boulder-Longmont area was named the leading area in the U.S. for software employment.
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03/08/2002
Deciphering the open-source war
News.Com: He's baaack! At the recently concluded World Congress on Information Technology 2002, Microsoft's Craig Mundie registered his objection to those awful folks who take the liberty to compete with his company.
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