A silver lining?
Perhaps this is the silver lining in the outsourcing/offshoring trend.
Like a lot of you, I write verticle "enterprise" applications for a living. They can add a lot of value to an organization, and help make it more effecient, but my work isn't exactly going to change the world. Its scope is inherently limitted.
So, if our enterprise application development duties go overseas, we'll be freed up (inded, forced) to work on more innovative applications.
Don't get me wrong; it's not that offshore developers aren't capable of developing innovative applications themselves. It's just that when American, or European, or global companies contract offshore developers, they are hiring them to develop to spec, not to innovate. Offshore or domestic, developers who want to innovate are going to have to do it for themselves, not for some comglomerate who wants their accounts receivable system tied to their ERP system.
Posted by: jimothy on September 18, 2003 at 08:04 AM