Russian Outsourcing

[WageSlave1]

Russia: A rising star in outsourcing?

This articles reminds me of a thread I had with AtW some time ago.

The country has many advantages:

Russia has a large population, a strong education system, and is physically close to both the US and Europe.

Russia has traditionally had a reputation for producing
talented guys who know how to do complex stuff

Only two real disadvantages: poor image and too expensive.

[DimPrawn]

I've put projects up on rent-a-coder before.

You get lots of Indians offering to do the work and quite a few eastern europeans.

Difference is the Indians quite obviously have no clue as to what you actually want, say they've done it already, can be delivered in 2 days and will cost $10.

The eastern europeans, explain how they will approach it, ask sensible questions, offer up example work, make suggestions as to improve it and quote $2,000

Considering what I wanted was pretty complex and at least a months work, I know which outsourcers I'd go with....

[FrancoLondinium]

So SW when are we going to open our outsourcing company Russia and eastern-europe based?

[sunnysan]

I think one of the biggest problems is infrastructure

I cant speak for the russian federation but I was thinking of doing something with some guys in Belarus.

AFAIK no broadband and Secret Service in every ISP monitoring emails and all that. I have had cases of emails being edited before they got to me.

[WageSlave1]

So SW when are we going to open our outsourcing company Russia and eastern-europe based?

Franco, I presume you mean WS rather than SW...Interesting idea. It could be a Russian/Lithuanian venture.

I like it, Franco, I like it!

[AtW]

outsourcing

I'd only go for that if I did not care about security and safety of the source code. Open Source is good for it -- big corporations could have hired for nothing thousands of programmers working on Open Source projects.