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[david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (David Kramer)]

Matt Shields wrote, On 11/02/2008 10:02 AM:
> Years ago I worked for Verizon's VIP department and we were responsible for
> creating the desktop images that got installed on 10's of thousands of
> computers.  Each department would ask for a custom image with the
> applications they wanted.  So to make things easy we took all the
> applications like M$Office, Notes, etc and used a packaging software to make
> them a one click install.  We also took all OS and app updates and packaged
> them for remote installation.
> 
> Well upper management thought it would be a good idea to start outsourcing
> this process to a company in India.  They figured we could get a 3 to 1
> ratio on "talent".  Something that would take us 1 hour to package
> litterally took them over 8 weeks.  We went as far as to teach them how to
> use InstallShield and how to script and they still couldn't do it as fast as
> us.  So management finally realized it was costing them more to outsource
> keeping us and them paid, so they got rid of the outsourcing.

Similar story at Polaroid.  Easily 70% of the India team's code had to
be rewritten in-house from scratch.  Big cost savings, let me tell you!