The market for all those one time high paying computer programming jobs are starting to be filled be less expensive offshore software developers. Welcome to the world of global competition in offshore software development. Depending on your context, offshore software development can be viewed as a new competition threat or opportunity in new resources. Or, it can be viewed as a combination of both.

As an American, I believe there is mostly a negative conatation towards the trend of large American companies offshoring jobs. You know, the underlying tone is somthing similar to “big companies only care about profits, not people”. Honestly, when the topic is big business, I can agree with points on both sides of the discussions. But, what is often lost in these discussions of offshoring software development jobs are the opportunities it creates for small business.

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