When I was in business grad school, they were drilling into us the
beauty of outsourcing. As is naturally the case with we, I was one of
the few dissenting voices that remark on things like code
quality,design,etc. specially if left unmanaged. There's always a cost
to cutting cost, but few thought there were any downsizes to the
strategy back then, but we've all seen the results since. Overseas
outsourcing will always be around and it can actually be a good thing if
properly manage. States side development and architecture is key to
making it work. Simple things like variable naming can get really mucked
up if you leave the project unmanaged and in the hands of outsourced
overseas developers. Companies are slowly learning these painful lessons.
John
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Patrick Carroll wrote:
I think Adobe should stay proprietary, for the moment. They have a
lead, let them exploit it.
Why should they throw out their brilliance to a world full of bean
counters and bean counter exploiters?
Were Adobe to make all the stack public domain, a billion Indians
would descend on Mumbai claiming Flex proficiency available at a rate
of $0.25/hr., and a million bean-counters would descend on American
companies screaming *OUTSOURCE*, *OFFSHORE*!!!!!!!
A few years later, there would be MASSIVE project failures in the US,
as the outsourced projects failed to live up to the (long-gone)
bean-counters' expectations. Oh, and there would be no actual US
developers available to pick up the slack (you know: "Why follow that
offshored career?", etc.)
Oh, BTW, this past is already come to present. I'm living it right now.
The bottom line is that bean counters are easily seduced, and the
results of the seduction, like herpes, live on for a painful forever.
Keep the Windows advantage until an open-source advantage shows.
Business people are mostly stupid blind eyes and open stomachs.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM, John Mason <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yes, you guess it. Adobe is uncertain about developing Flex
Builder for Linux. Apparently the flood of developers leaving
Windows for Mac and Linux isn't enough of a wake up call.
Please vote and comment on this. It's pretty important. Frankly
I'm surprise it came up given the direction they are going with
the SDK, BlazeDS and AIR.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19053
John
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