Outsourcing boondoggle
Interesting article in Network World Fusion: Deloitte Consulting claims that big companies are finally getting some religion when it comes to outsourcing.
Apparently the survey found that 70 percent of the companies surveyed -- with a combined total of $50 billion in outsourcing contracts -- have had negative experiences. 25 percent of those surveyed have brought those functions back in house, and nearly half of them have failed to realize any cost savings.
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Good article, thx.
Over the past couple of weeks, representatives from Oracle have been calling to recruit my firm as a development partner.
Besides the fact that the deal they offer is nowhere near as good as Microsoft's partner program, the people on the phone have incomprehensibly thick Indian accents.
Someone really is missing the point: if a company like Oracle is looking for partners to pony up their hard-earned cash to qualify as resellers and ISV's, at the very least they could employ Americans to make the pitch.
Employing Canadians would be okay, too.
Posted by: CapeCoder | April 21, 2005 05:32 PM