[nylug-talk] Why does "enterprise" imply "Java"?

[Michael Bacarella]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:43:39PM -0400, Paul Robbins wrote:
...
> The offshore team keeps screaming that they need faster hardware and that
> they are limited by resources. On the other hand, I am screaming that they
> servers are lightyears ahead of the boxes I get to develop on and I have no
> problem accomplishing all of the tasks I need. The issue is effecient code
> and undestanding the business objectives, which I do not believe they do.

The offshoring argument is a good corollary.

I don't think organizations realize how small the programmer costs are
when all factors are taken together.

According to sloccount (+others), when you consider what an organization spends
on marketing, administrative, infrastructure, etc. the programmer's salaries
make up about 10% of the cost.

Assuming you had good developers on the other side of the globe working on your
project, it'll still suffer from time zone and communication issues.  Surely
that costs a lot more than whatever slice of the original 10% that was being saved
by offshore outsourcing?

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Michael Bacarella <mbac at netgraft.com>