[quote=afx114][quote=HiggyBaby]I’ll bet this is Microsoft’s effort to move more deeply into offshoring towards India. This is likely a shift of US jobs to other countries. If true, its not a good sign for us here in the US. And, its more incentive for us to look at competing/public domain offerings like linux, mysql, etc.[/quote]

I don’t know anyone who uses MS stuff anymore. All the big players are already on open source Linux, MySQL, etc.. I’ve administered and programmed on both MS and open source platforms, and I’m never taking on another MS-based project. When I think of MS and MS-based projects, I think of Office Space. Cubicles and billions of lines of code and an army of monkeys that write and maintain it. And staplers. MS is a slowly dying dinosaur.

As for India, I’ve had to work with a few teams in India on projects and it was nothing but headache and sub-par results. From my experiences, the outsourcing of programming is overrated and a lot of companies are going to be disappointed when trying to save a few bucks[/quote]

Actually, some of the big players no longer write “that much code” anymore. Some of the work is using hardware based versions of previous known software packages, a lot work is being done on enterprise software packages that follow standards, or integration technologies. Hence, why you don’t want to stay a “programmer” unless you’re embedded.

Tech is so commoditized these days, it’s cheap to put things together..though opensource is overrated. Without proper documentation/support, it costs an arm and a leg in time.