From: Richard Torkar <richard.torkar@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T03:05:08+09:00
Subject: OT: Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 02:53 +0900, NorwoodThree wrote:
> > This isn't about the subject of this thread, but it got me curious.
> > 
> > Are you suggesting that outsourcing to India means reduction in quality.
> > I am asking this because what is believed is the other way, that is,
> > outsourcing to India means better quality work. There was an article
> > in eweek "time to debunk myth that indian programmers are better".
> > I will post the link later. Don't have it now.
> 
> I am going to go out on a limb and say worse quality work because I
> can't understand them when I talk to them on the phone.

A Global Survey of Software Development Practices

http://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/papers/178_Cusumano_Intl_Comp.pdf

Best,

Richard