IEEE Spectrum on outsourcing.

re: your .sig. - 179. I will not outsource core functions.

The April IEEE [link|http://www.spectrum.ieee.org|Spectrum] has several interesting articles. One is [link|http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/apr05/departments/0405inve.html|Source In, Risk Out] (you may need to be a member for that link to work):

In one widely reported case, California software entrepreneur Sandeep Jolly discovered evidence that a female employee at his offshore development center in Mumbai, India, had sent key files and source code to her personal Yahoo e-mail account. When confronted, the employee professed illness, went home, and disappeared. Jolly immediately contacted the local police, which had established a cybercrime unit to deal precisely with such complaints. According to Jolly, the police refused to investigate.

The police say that they found no evidence of theft and, in any case, that Jolly did not have adequate security systems in place. Jolly also claims to have received no help from the National Association of Software and Service Companies, in New Delhi, an industry group that promotes India's outsourcing capabilities. "We were told that there are patent, copyright, and IP protection laws in India," Jolly informed the trade Web site IT World.com ([link|http://www.itworld.com|http://www.itworld.com]). "They failed to mention that the laws are impossible to enforce."

While incidents of software IP violations are not rampant, neither is Jolly's case unique\ufffdat least not in the United States. As for elsewhere in the developed world, complaints involving outsourcing and IP theft are scant. Part of the reason may be a smaller appetite for outsourcing in other countries. European offshoring activities, according to Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn., amount to about one-third of those in the United States. It's clear that the offshoring approach has yet to catch fire in Europe.

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With that possibility in mind, outsource your IT projects in a modular fashion to different developers, for example, so that loss of any one component does limited damage, or restrict offshore efforts to products that have no value without the support and service infrastructure that only you will provide. In adjusting to the challenges of moving development half a world away, outsourcers must not ignore the less visible but highly charged issues surrounding their IP.

Another good article is [link|http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/apr05/features/0405vcap.html|How Venture Capital Thwarts Innovation].

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #202,691 by Another Scott 4/10/05 11:06:30 AM Reply	IEEE Spectrum on outsourcing. re: your .sig. - 179. I will not outsource core functions. The April IEEE [link\|http://www.spectrum.ieee.org\|Spectrum] has several interesting articles. One is [link\|http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/apr05/departments/0405inve.html\|Source In, Risk Out] (you may need to be a member for that link to work): In one widely reported case, California software entrepreneur Sandeep Jolly discovered evidence that a female employee at his offshore development center in Mumbai, India, had sent key files and source code to her personal Yahoo e-mail account. When confronted, the employee professed illness, went home, and disappeared. Jolly immediately contacted the local police, which had established a cybercrime unit to deal precisely with such complaints. According to Jolly, the police refused to investigate. The police say that they found no evidence of theft and, in any case, that Jolly did not have adequate security systems in place. Jolly also claims to have received no help from the National Association of Software and Service Companies, in New Delhi, an industry group that promotes India's outsourcing capabilities. "We were told that there are patent, copyright, and IP protection laws in India," Jolly informed the trade Web site IT World.com ([link\|http://www.itworld.com\|http://www.itworld.com]). "They failed to mention that the laws are impossible to enforce." While incidents of software IP violations are not rampant, neither is Jolly's case unique\ufffdat least not in the United States. As for elsewhere in the developed world, complaints involving outsourcing and IP theft are scant. Part of the reason may be a smaller appetite for outsourcing in other countries. European offshoring activities, according to Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn., amount to about one-third of those in the United States. It's clear that the offshoring approach has yet to catch fire in Europe. [...] With that possibility in mind, outsource your IT projects in a modular fashion to different developers, for example, so that loss of any one component does limited damage, or restrict offshore efforts to products that have no value without the support and service infrastructure that only you will provide. In adjusting to the challenges of moving development half a world away, outsourcers must not ignore the less visible but highly charged issues surrounding their IP. Another good article is [link\|http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/apr05/features/0405vcap.html\|How Venture Capital Thwarts Innovation]. Cheers, Scott.
Post #202,699 by broomberg 4/10/05 12:20:44 PM Reply	That was from the Evil Overlord list And there was classic Evil Overlord mistake in Sincity.
Post #202,754 by Arkadiy 4/10/05 9:17:37 PM Reply	Behold the power of the small dot :) ------ 179. I will not outsource core functions. -- [link\|http://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/misc/overlord2.htm\|.]

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