Everyones favorite subject - Outsourcing!
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Anyone who's worried about losing their job to outsourcing, fear not! - It seems a whole new industry has sprung up thanks to our offshore friends; Fixing bugs in over-budget badly written outsourced projects! :-D The Hidden Costs of IT Outsourcing[^] "Keith Franklin, president of Empowered Software Solutions in Burr Ridge, Ill., loves offshore outsourcing . It means more work for his 40-person company. Just last year, ESS, which specializes in developing applications for Microsoft's .Net platform for Web services, earned $500,000 in revenues from fixing buggy software written in India. It took ESS five months to repair a glitch-filled application for a Web portal. Most pages on the site weren't connected, turning updating into a nightmare. Some code was missing."..... John[^]
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Anyone who's worried about losing their job to outsourcing, fear not! - It seems a whole new industry has sprung up thanks to our offshore friends; Fixing bugs in over-budget badly written outsourced projects! :-D The Hidden Costs of IT Outsourcing[^] "Keith Franklin, president of Empowered Software Solutions in Burr Ridge, Ill., loves offshore outsourcing . It means more work for his 40-person company. Just last year, ESS, which specializes in developing applications for Microsoft's .Net platform for Web services, earned $500,000 in revenues from fixing buggy software written in India. It took ESS five months to repair a glitch-filled application for a Web portal. Most pages on the site weren't connected, turning updating into a nightmare. Some code was missing."..... John[^]
Outsouring to India will fail in the long run for the simple reason that the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco :-( All the newer MS technologies are closely bound to the Internet. I'd like to see how anyone can develop wholly internet dependent apps when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
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Outsouring to India will fail in the long run for the simple reason that the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco :-( All the newer MS technologies are closely bound to the Internet. I'd like to see how anyone can develop wholly internet dependent apps when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
You should try and implement a few of these, and see if you can't bump up your nation's service... ;) Also, i wasn't aware onion sellers in SF had it so good, bandwidth-wise... may have to reconsider that as a career option...
A servant to formulaic ways.
Shog9
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Outsouring to India will fail in the long run for the simple reason that the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco :-( All the newer MS technologies are closely bound to the Internet. I'd like to see how anyone can develop wholly internet dependent apps when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
Nishant S wrote: the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco LOL Nish, you really hate it, don't you? I can sympathesize with you, though. Why don't we start a campaign or something about it, to get more bandwidth. I hear Reliance is doing a lot of good things in this area, though. They are laying down optical fibre cables all over India. It might be some time before broadband really arrives in India though. Till then we'll either have to pay through our nose to get a half decent connection, or live on a dial up. :sigh: Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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Outsouring to India will fail in the long run for the simple reason that the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco :-( All the newer MS technologies are closely bound to the Internet. I'd like to see how anyone can develop wholly internet dependent apps when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
Nishant S wrote: the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco I could be wrong Nish, but I think your experience is limited to a small city like TVM. We in CBE just got our first pseudo-broadband ISP (yes, I made up that term) and their business isn't exactly booming. But Bangalore and metros like Madras and Mumbai have very good connections. India isn't there yet, but it's getting there... Just curious, but what b/w did you get in the US? Vikram.
Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Nishant S wrote: the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco LOL Nish, you really hate it, don't you? I can sympathesize with you, though. Why don't we start a campaign or something about it, to get more bandwidth. I hear Reliance is doing a lot of good things in this area, though. They are laying down optical fibre cables all over India. It might be some time before broadband really arrives in India though. Till then we'll either have to pay through our nose to get a half decent connection, or live on a dial up. :sigh: Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Rohit Sinha wrote: LOL Nish, you really hate it, don't you? Yeah Rohit. I know I sometimes get carried away with my protests. But it really hurts when you think of it because we are basically being deprived of soemthing so vital to us as 21st century developers. Its like a violinist being told that he wont access to a violin except for 5 minutes a week :( Rohit Sinha wrote: It might be some time before broadband really arrives in India though. Perhaps if they let foreign providers provide internet it might improve things. Look what all the foreign/private satellite channels did to improve TV broadcasting quality in India. Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
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Nishant S wrote: the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco LOL Nish, you really hate it, don't you? I can sympathesize with you, though. Why don't we start a campaign or something about it, to get more bandwidth. I hear Reliance is doing a lot of good things in this area, though. They are laying down optical fibre cables all over India. It might be some time before broadband really arrives in India though. Till then we'll either have to pay through our nose to get a half decent connection, or live on a dial up. :sigh: Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Rohit Sinha wrote: Nish, you really hate it, don't you? Who doesn't? Have you tried being on dialup after being pampered for a month on a 128K connection? X| And Nish must have got used to much more than 128K. Vikram.
Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Nishant S wrote: the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco I could be wrong Nish, but I think your experience is limited to a small city like TVM. We in CBE just got our first pseudo-broadband ISP (yes, I made up that term) and their business isn't exactly booming. But Bangalore and metros like Madras and Mumbai have very good connections. India isn't there yet, but it's getting there... Just curious, but what b/w did you get in the US? Vikram.
Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Vikram Punathambekar wrote: I could be wrong Nish, but I think your experience is limited to a small city like TVM. We in CBE just got our first pseudo-broadband ISP (yes, I made up that term) and their business isn't exactly booming. I am on cable-internet right now. Slow cable is the word I use for it (just as you use "pseudo-broadband") The max speed I get is 6 KB/s and during day times I usually get 1-1.5 KB/s. Thats about the same speed that a 56K dial up user gets :-( And sometimes it gets so slow pages time out and I am unable to even pop my mail :(( Vikram Punathambekar wrote: Just curious, but what b/w did you get in the US? I had 6 Mbps DSL :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
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Rohit Sinha wrote: LOL Nish, you really hate it, don't you? Yeah Rohit. I know I sometimes get carried away with my protests. But it really hurts when you think of it because we are basically being deprived of soemthing so vital to us as 21st century developers. Its like a violinist being told that he wont access to a violin except for 5 minutes a week :( Rohit Sinha wrote: It might be some time before broadband really arrives in India though. Perhaps if they let foreign providers provide internet it might improve things. Look what all the foreign/private satellite channels did to improve TV broadcasting quality in India. Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
Nishant S wrote: Perhaps if they let foreign providers provide internet it might improve things. That's actually a good idea. The competition will force the ISPs to either improve, merge/get bought, or close down (good riddance). But where will the Indian ISPs get the infrastructre from? The foreign ISPs have a lot of money and will have no difficulty putting up their own infrastructure, but the local ones won't be able to do any such thing and will have to wait for players like Reliance etc to do something and then license from them. Wait a couple more years and then open the gates, I say. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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Rohit Sinha wrote: Nish, you really hate it, don't you? Who doesn't? Have you tried being on dialup after being pampered for a month on a 128K connection? X| And Nish must have got used to much more than 128K. Vikram.
Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Where did you get 128K? Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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Outsouring to India will fail in the long run for the simple reason that the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco :-( All the newer MS technologies are closely bound to the Internet. I'd like to see how anyone can develop wholly internet dependent apps when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
Nishant S wrote: when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! Well, you were living in America for a while, but you didn't like it here, either. Let's see, unhappy in India, unhappy in America, unhappy again in India, hmmm. Is there a pattern forming somewhere here? ;) Don't shoot, guys, I'm only teasing... :cool: Chistopher Duncan The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success
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Outsouring to India will fail in the long run for the simple reason that the whole of India has as much total bandwidth as an onion seller would in San Francisco :-( All the newer MS technologies are closely bound to the Internet. I'd like to see how anyone can develop wholly internet dependent apps when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
It is not so bad Nish. Web-dev existed before broadband and we did ok then too. I agree broadband is lovely, it does increase productivity (and farting about) but we get 7kbps and do a good job in web-dev. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Vikram Punathambekar wrote: I could be wrong Nish, but I think your experience is limited to a small city like TVM. We in CBE just got our first pseudo-broadband ISP (yes, I made up that term) and their business isn't exactly booming. I am on cable-internet right now. Slow cable is the word I use for it (just as you use "pseudo-broadband") The max speed I get is 6 KB/s and during day times I usually get 1-1.5 KB/s. Thats about the same speed that a 56K dial up user gets :-( And sometimes it gets so slow pages time out and I am unable to even pop my mail :(( Vikram Punathambekar wrote: Just curious, but what b/w did you get in the US? I had 6 Mbps DSL :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
Nishant S wrote: The max speed I get is 6 KB/s and during day times I usually get 1-1.5 KB/s. In Durgapur we don't even have cable internet. :( But my dial up is better than what you have. I normally get at least 3-4 KB/s. At peak times, in the night usually, I get 6-7KB/s. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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Anyone who's worried about losing their job to outsourcing, fear not! - It seems a whole new industry has sprung up thanks to our offshore friends; Fixing bugs in over-budget badly written outsourced projects! :-D The Hidden Costs of IT Outsourcing[^] "Keith Franklin, president of Empowered Software Solutions in Burr Ridge, Ill., loves offshore outsourcing . It means more work for his 40-person company. Just last year, ESS, which specializes in developing applications for Microsoft's .Net platform for Web services, earned $500,000 in revenues from fixing buggy software written in India. It took ESS five months to repair a glitch-filled application for a Web portal. Most pages on the site weren't connected, turning updating into a nightmare. Some code was missing."..... John[^]
And all US development is bug free, on time and under budget, right? Come on chaps. There is no clear cut "outsourcing is bad, stick with us" rule. You will get bad outsourcers as you will get bad local dev. Both have their challenges, their pros and cons. Weigh it up and pick what is right for the task at hand. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Where did you get 128K? Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Bangalore, of course. I don't know about connection speeds in Madras/Mumbai/etc, but cable is becoming fairly common there. Mutters to himself: Just 8 more months... Vikram.
Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Nishant S wrote: Perhaps if they let foreign providers provide internet it might improve things. That's actually a good idea. The competition will force the ISPs to either improve, merge/get bought, or close down (good riddance). But where will the Indian ISPs get the infrastructre from? The foreign ISPs have a lot of money and will have no difficulty putting up their own infrastructure, but the local ones won't be able to do any such thing and will have to wait for players like Reliance etc to do something and then license from them. Wait a couple more years and then open the gates, I say. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Rohit Sinha wrote: Wait a couple more years and then open the gates, I say. Fair enough, that way the Indian ISPs cannot say they've been treated bad! Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
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Nishant S wrote: when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! Well, you were living in America for a while, but you didn't like it here, either. Let's see, unhappy in India, unhappy in America, unhappy again in India, hmmm. Is there a pattern forming somewhere here? ;) Don't shoot, guys, I'm only teasing... :cool: Chistopher Duncan The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success
Christopher Duncan wrote: Is there a pattern forming somewhere here? Try connecting to the internet from India. You'll not only be able to see the pattern, you'll also be able to photograph it and distribute copies to everyone. :sigh: Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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Nishant S wrote: The max speed I get is 6 KB/s and during day times I usually get 1-1.5 KB/s. In Durgapur we don't even have cable internet. :( But my dial up is better than what you have. I normally get at least 3-4 KB/s. At peak times, in the night usually, I get 6-7KB/s. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Rohit Sinha wrote: But my dial up is better than what you have. And your phone bill is no doubt higher. ;P Why don't you move to some place like Calcutta where the work is (presumably) better and you can get cable internet? Vikram.
Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Bangalore, of course. I don't know about connection speeds in Madras/Mumbai/etc, but cable is becoming fairly common there. Mutters to himself: Just 8 more months... Vikram.
Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Ah OK, B'lore is a cool place indeed. But what I actually wanted to know was the ISP's name. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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Nishant S wrote: when you have to pay 90% of your salary for 1/1000th the speed any normal US-developer gets! Well, you were living in America for a while, but you didn't like it here, either. Let's see, unhappy in India, unhappy in America, unhappy again in India, hmmm. Is there a pattern forming somewhere here? ;) Don't shoot, guys, I'm only teasing... :cool: Chistopher Duncan The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success
Christopher Duncan wrote: Well, you were living in America for a while, but you didn't like it here, either. Let's see, unhappy in India, unhappy in America, unhappy again in India, hmmm. Is there a pattern forming somewhere here? LOL :-D Trivandrum has everything I want except bandwidth, good roads and snow! CA had bandwidth and good roads, but no snow + some of the other things I wanted in life (basically my loved ones) I guess my mental temperament is such that I'll never ever be able to say, "Now I am perfectly happy". My mom always says, "he always wants something more". Seems even as a baby/kid I was never happy with my toys and somehow kept asking for more stuff. I guess some day in the distant future when I have an OC-3 line of my own, I'd ask for a dinner date with Heather Graham :sigh: Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection