[DamnYuppie]

Can you elaborate on this further? Are you implying that it is the quality of the candidates and not the number?

I can't say I disagree with that statement in and of itself. Yet I believe you are getting few qualified candidates because companies are asking for highly skilled people with a great deal of experience and then only, and my opinion is intentionally, offering well below market wages. This then allows them to scream "there are not enough developers". The whole shtick is just meant to repress wages..

[shreeshga]

From my experience most of the H1B candidates who might join a company with lower wage at first, can and will negotiate for higher pay when they change company. I think the days of hiring H1B candidates at lower wages and thinking of _retaining_ them are gone and the companies do realize that.