Lori, I have also seen the two sides of offshore. I worked in France and we have a sub-contractor in Tunisia (Africa). But 5 years ago I decided to besome an "offshore" developer and moved to Tunis. So I lead an offshore development team. We use a leased line to access a "sub" LAN of our client. I agree with Colin but I think that the major problem is : When the client decide on minor changes of his specification sometimes forgot to mention it to us or he did it with some delay. So some troubles happen when we have to support some modification because of a “missing E-Mail”. So the key of success is to consider that the offshore team must be informed off all decision (even the minor ones) to be in phase and minimize delays and surprises. Feel free to contact me for more information. Regards Mouez MEMMI