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Posted by Andrew on December 12, 2007, 9:51 pm
Please log in for more thread options John Pollard wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>> John Pollard wrote:
>>> Steve Larson wrote:
>>>> To my knowledge, it's been at least a few years. If anyone
>>>> else has more accurate info, please provide.
>
>>> I'd like to see even a shred of evidence that Intuit has its
>>> programming done overseas.
>
>> http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/167600162
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> Thank you Andrew; my initial assumption stands corrected.
>
> Now let me see concrete evidence that programmers in South Asia
> (or any other country) are less competent, or produce lower
> quality products than,
> let's say, American programmers.
By the way John, just to set the record straight, I agree. I personally
have absolutely NO problem with "off shore" (I actually detest the term)
programmers. (Who are where the products are made doesn't interest me in
the slightest if the quality is maintained. We're in a world wide economy
and as a result, in total, I think things can only go up. I've had some
clunkers over there, but I also have had a couple of Microsoft techkies walk
me through a networking problem on some of their products that were simply
great and really knew their stuff.
A few years back (well, maybe more than a few!), Japanese-made products were
considered cheap. I remember as a kid (40+ years ago) their toys had a
reputation that things would break in just 5 minutes. Well, given 25 years,
look at them now. A few years back, American cars couldn't compete with
Japanese imports. But now, Japan is having its troubles and a model of
Chevolet (I believe) is giving the Corolla a run for the money in terms of
units being sold - competition is only good for the end consumer.
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Regards -
- Andrew
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