Re: Outsourcing/Offshoring

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Are any of your sales to overseas customers or companies?

If so, I guess you are OK with them deciding to not purchase your 
product on the same basis ?

Try thinking through the ramifications of this train of thought - it 
makes no sense whatsoever.



At 07:20 a.m. 13/02/2007, you wrote:


> I have read a lot lately about Outsourcing/Offshoring IT
> jobs (programming, support etc) and most of it is about
> concern for loss of jobs or lower salaries in the IT field.
>
> As a software vendor I find it interesting that we are asked
> many questions about our company and software during the
> sales cycle. But we have NEVER been asked where our
> development or our support is done.
>
> To all of you that are concerned as I am about outsourcing-
> 1) How do you feel about it when purchasing software?
> 2) Do you care that the software you are purchasing was
> developed and supported by employees in the US or not?
> 3) Do you take this into consideration when purchasing
> software?
>
> Just FYI, we do not now, nor have we ever, or would we ever
> outsource any of our development or support to be done
> outside of our offices in the USA.
>
>
> John