[HiTech RedNeck]

I have personally worked with a major India-developed software system (because of proprietary considerations I will not mention what or where) and the quality was, well, very mixed at best. We would report bugs back to them, they would get fixed, then they would reappear in the next update.

[swarthyguy]

I'm no great expert about the quality, despite having been in the industry. But the work is going there in rather amazing numbers. Senior mgmt sees saving upto or more than a 100K a year in employee costs as a good deal.

Well, the world runs MicroSoft, so software quality is a nebulous issue in a world when MS is OS king.

AMerican corps seem to be having no major issues with the shift to India. Neither does the USG. Contracts once issued do not seem to be coming back to the US.

That happened with Lionel Trains a few years back. They moved back to the US from Mexico.

[Theo]

We have an office in India, and I tend to agree with you. People from that culture tend not to make the best project managers. Perhaps just a cultural thing. I'd be interested in better understanding the dynamics of what makes a good developer, and a good project manager, and if there's any relationship between those and ones home culture.

[BlazingArizona]

I will not mention what or where) and the quality was, well, very mixed at best. We would report bugs back to them, they would get fixed, then they would reappear in the next update.

US companies don't consider this a problem, because they have outsourced their customer support desks, as well as the software development. So when your Indian software product doesn't work, you get "help" desk service handled by people who are clueless about the product. There's no one to complain to - end of problem! Are you going to go out and buy American-made software instead? What American software!