[SicSemperUranus]

I agree, people who are only fluent in one language (and who don't study anthropology) tend to ignore the huge cultural factor in these things.

Indian people already have a hard time getting hired in your own country, you think your boomer boss is going to go out of his way to get them? I strongly doubt this.

Outsourcing has been tried for a long time, if it was a permanent solution it would have become the norm. Not to say that there is never a time for it, but software is, ironically, where I think it's the least likely to work out, precisely for the reasons you cited.

[ethbr0]

Outsourcing software development works great when you can specify exactly what you want ahead of time...

... software engineering history has been a lurching but ever more complete realization that the customer never knows exactly what they need ahead of time.

[taylodl]

BINGO!!!

The work has to be well-defined and expectations clearly set, but we all know that it's rarely the case that the work is well-defined and that expectations are clearly set. What you end up with is an expensive disaster - and you can't correct from it either: you'll be black-listed in your community and people will be very leery of ever working for you again.

These lessons have been learned and re-learned for the past 30 years now - going back as far as Yourdon's Decline and Fall of the American Programmer - which was published in 1992.