Re: Heart Warming Advertising(please read)

[boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

True, "you get what you pay for," but lets not forget:  $15-$20 an hour in 
India is damn good wages.

I competed against the Asian labor market for a while.  I learned one 
thing: the workmanship is not that bad and the labor pool ramps up real 
fast.  I had a cast iron foundry.  White iron (that means melted, in the 
ladle, ready to pour, no labor costs added yet) cost me about $1.00/pound. 
 I could buy finished cast iron products on the docks in any U.S. seaport 
for $0.11/pound  -  less if I bargained.  So, don't be thinking that Asian 
labor will be ineffective and produce bad code.  That generalization will 
not be borne out in the marketplace.

_______________________
Booth Martin
boothm@earth.goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
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"Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@ediconsulting.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
12/03/1999 12:43 PM
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You get what you pay for.  If a company does not want to pay our rates and
would like to hire an off shore programmer making 15-20 bucks an hour, 
then
that is great with me.  I would not want to do business with them anyway. 
I
don't have an aspiration to be the Yugo of consulting and development
companies.
CJG

Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.



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