[kls]

You are right and the article misses the obvious. There is a wave of outsourcing every few years, it ends up not being the bill or goods it was sold as, it comes back and they end up paying 3X the cost because in the mean time people leave the development industry to find greener pastures. I fear we are doomed to repeat this cycle until accounting can account for non-tangible value. Every day we as US citizens are inundated with cultural knowledge stuff that we just take for granted about our culture. This stuff has profound impact on everything we do, even development things that we do will seem backwards to another culture and as such will be missed in creative processes that reflect systems within our culture. Until someone figures out how to convey that to other developers offshore project will carry with them a higher risk of failure.