On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > worst. I can understand why anyone would assume the worst about outsourcing > to India, it has a bad rep and most people who have had to deal with > outsourced support will have been driven to tearing their hair out at some > point. But as has been said, this is not really outsourcing as Adobe have > offices and staff there and have had for a long time.
FWIW, the CF / Builder product teams are in Bangalore which was Macromedia's India office for a long time. The Web Team (which I created - just after Macromedia acquired Allaire) had most its QA team in India so that we could do 24 hour dev cycles (dev in SF, QA overnight in India). It worked very well. Macromedia had a number of product teams in India. When Adobe acquired Macromedia, that meant two India offices - since Adobe already had an office in Noida with many of its product teams situated there. There's no change to the team that brought us CF8 and CF9 and CFB1 - they're the same folks in India that they've always been and so it's the same team bringing us CFX. The _only_ change in Adam's (long) blog post was that the two roles of Product Management and Product Marketing Management will now be co-located with the engineering team, as part of a larger, well-established business unit that already maintains Framemaker Server and RoboHelp Server (yes, two server products already live in that BU). It seems that any and all change is scary to some folks and a number of them predict doom and disaster every time there's a change. It happened when Macromedia bought Allaire. It happened when Adobe bought Macromedia. It happened when Tim Buntel stepped down as PM, it happened when Jason Delmore was let go from his PM role and it's happened again with Adam transitioning the PM role to someone new. So far, doom and disaster has failed to follow any of those changes... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342246 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
