Re: World's Cheapest Consultants

["Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Narayanan:

This is a cheap shot...I hope you aren't taking this personally.  I respect
your opinion.  In fact, I agree with many of the statements that you made in
this thread.

You took my statement out of context.  It was originally written as:

<quote
The old adage "you get what you pay for" is what comes to mind.  And if you
are paying a "coder" in India, Russia, China, or wherever only $ 25.00 per
hour or less to produce the work, you are probably going to get crap code
"if
you don't have extremely detail specifications and deliverables documented
and agreed upon in contractual form, with retainage or penalties to
guarantee that they stay on track.
/quote>

It is so convenient for you to manipulate _my_ words and make them say what
_you_ want them to say.

I stand by my statement.

Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "Narayanan Pillai" <strqst400@yahoo.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: World's Cheapest Consultants


> Steve,
>
> You said "The old adage "you get what you pay for" is
> what comes to mind.  And if you are paying a "coder"
> in India, Russia, China, or wherever only $ 25.00 per
> hour or less to produce the work, you are probably
> going to get crap code"
>
> I am not sure that this is true. If I may presume,
> once the cost of living, exchange rates and other
> indices are taken into account, you are probably going
> to get the best "coders" you can for $25.00 an hour.
>
> Whereas, it is true that you would not get a
> reasonable programmer living in America for that
> value, I think it is wrong to assume that you could
> not elsewhere. The best example in this context is a
> buying a house on three-quarters of an acre in
> Manhattan vs buying the same in Mexico. Guess which
> one is going to be more expensive ? Same house, same
> value, different location, different buying power.
> Economics 101.
>
> Narayanan R Pillai
> Senior Technical Architect
> American Medical & Life Insurance
>
>
>
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