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Nice article but

"Your work won’t be off-shored .. "

This is simply not true. A large fraction of the code outsourced to India consists of ancient code-wrecks in "musty languages",( to quote the author, nice turn of phrase by the way!) no one in the West wants to touch any more, while green field development with the latest cool tech stays in the US.

I've known of COBOL, RPG, PowerBuilder etc code bases maintained (well) for years in India. Infosys and co make large chunks of money this way. And anyway outsourcing (relatively) low value/cost work makes some sense. I am not saying it is a good or bad thing. Just the way it is.



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