Well, it seems that the current trend in outsourcing programming work is like an experiment to see if it will stick. If it does, it can save a ton of cold hard cash in the near term. Always very seductive, even at the expense of quality. When it makes good sense for manufacturing, why not try it for programming? The economy being as it has been for the past few years, there's always abundant opportunity to experiment. However, as I've previously mentioned, with a strengthening economy the experimentation will subside because of competitive pressure under expansionary conditions. Outsourcing programming will prove to be unsustainable because of this, IMHO. Instead save the cash by using a J2EE platform that lets you develop with less domestic resources, not more-but-cheaper foreign resources (hint: ColdFusion MX on JRun.)
Thanks, Louis Mezo LogicSynthesis Tel: 240.498.8951 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.logicsynthesis.com -- Son, did you crack admin at http://www.logicsynthesis.com yet? -----Original Message----- From: David Simcik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 4:09 PM To: CF-Jobs-Talk Subject: The State of Programming in the United States? Hi, I read a truly scary article on the Christian Science Monitor last week that stated rather matter-a-factly that the American programmer was about to become as extinct as the dinosaur because of foreign competition. As people that are in the know, at least as far as Cold Fusion development is concerned, do you think this position is true? If so, what are you doing about it? If not, why is it different? I must admit as someone that has been doing Cold Fusion/Java development for close to 7 years now that I was pretty darn frightened by what I read and there doesn't seem to be a whole heck of a lot going on for programmers on sites like Monster.com, etc either. Tell me what you think -- I'm all ears. Kind Regards, DTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=38 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2100 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/11 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:11 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
