Few I.T. industry trends have been as controversial as offshore outsourcing . By not only offloading their I.T. functions to third parties, but also turning to remote low-cost outsourcers to gain the greatest savings, corporations worldwide have accepted the notion that many aspects of I.T. are merely commodities despite the business risks associated with outsourcing.
While few firms are equipped to handle all of their I.T. functions on their own, all companies should be cautious about a new round of opportunistic outsourcers trying to win a piece of the market with increasingly offbeat business models.
One of the most bizarre is SeaCode, a venture that will place software engineers and application developers on a cruise ship off the coast of California, where they supposedly will have a competitive advantage over more remote outsourcers in India, China and elsewhere.
More: toptechnews.com
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