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Originally Posted by BJ
Interesting article and food for thought.
The company in question is big, I think more than 300 employees and they work for around $20/hr and I was assured a team of 70, paid for milestones.
I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but if Im first, I believe we could have a god working relationship.
This is a mainstream and fairly unique financial/pos/accounting software.
I have the money, but not the silicon valley type of money, nor do I want partners. So, it's a conundrum to say the least.
I have checked several of their references and they are good.
No risk no reward and first to market wins. Learned that in 2001 and all others were second place.
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I'm all for offshore development, I'm involved in projects that are partly offshore and deal with fairly decent sized client projects in various industries. However all everyone in the Intellectual Property space has been talking about the past few months is the risk of developing product in India if it needs protection.
Going back to what I said a few posts ago, try and keep the 'secret sauce' in-house and as close to your direct control as possible - but if you're going to develop something that's trying to be first to market with an idea that can be copied then India is the last place on earth I'd base the project.
A fairly big ISP/Telco in Australia just spent $70 million on customising a popular CRM to their enterprise and the work was done in India. Those customisations have now turned up in Europe priced in the mid $xx,xxx and the competitive advantage their sales team had in China disappeared overnight.
Until India sorts out the legal mess surrounding patents they effectively just don't exist for software, which makes enforcement out of the question because there's nothing to enforce.
I'd recommend joining some of the Intellectual Property (Software) groups on LinkedIn and asking the questions you're asking here. Just be ready for the stream of horror stories.