Froberg, David C wrote:
Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue:
'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting?
"We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India where there
is virtually an unlimited supply. I can call and have 100 COBOL
programmers working on a project tomorrow. There's no bottleneck," Homa
said.'
Effective.
They really can have 100 COBOL programmers on demand (IBM's watchword).
Maybe poorly educated but well-motivated and less-paid.
That's why more nad more IT businesses are in India. And some in Poland.
And probably in Ukraine, Czech, etc.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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