Comments on: In Outsourcing will China really be a contender to India?

By: Roy W.

Roy W. — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:04:02 +0000

China IT Education still lagging —
China’s Computer Science education are still lagging badly. Most universities do not offer students any real IT training that prepares them to work in the real world. For example, many times a instructor teaching Java programming hasn’t programmed in Java himself. He either literally reads the text book or tells the students to do self study. As a result, all the students get from the class is a bunch of terminologies — no real understanding, let alone practical experience. This is quite prevalent in China’s education system. It will hurt China’s long term viability in IT competitiveness. We at http://www.freeoutsourcing.net try to address this issue by providing graduates with practical training and show them the first steps to what the real job market needs.

By: China will win in ITO

China will win in ITO — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:03:56 +0000

India should work hard to keep the ITO market, I do not know about BPO, but in IPO China can easily beat India in next 5-10 or so years.

By: Nidhi

Nidhi — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:00:46 +0000

protest in India for Obama's statement Buffalo has buffaloes,Bangalore has brains,Protest in India

By: Christian Sagala

Christian Sagala — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:48:16 +0000

In my own opinion, China still need to learn a lot of English and I believe that the majority of Chinese living in China do not know how to speak in English. However, I believe in the discipline and knowledge of the Chinese people and they may be one of the leading outsourcing resource in more years to come.

By: Seo Executive

Seo Executive — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:20:45 +0000

I work as a developer – not games – and almost every time we outsource something it’s a disaster. When I say disaster I don’t mean the code is a bit poor, I mean throw away the results because even if we were to fix it in-house, it’d be much easier to start from scratch. And that in the time our developer handling the outsourcing spent arguing with them, he could probably have made a damn good start on just that.

In fact, the only successes have been outsourcing to ‘best-of-their-kind’ Western companies with specific direct knowledge of the system we work with.

(And no this isn’t a slam on Indian developers either; several failures were in India, others were from smaller Western operations.)

So anyhow, I’m sure it’s possible to outsource code successfully but I’m also sure it’s a lot more difficult than most managers think. In other words the results of this report seem pretty likely to me…

(I think other things like artwork may be a lot easier to outsource because it’s much clearer to define: you can see whether they’ve done the job properly just by looking at it.)