Two articles from earlier this year paint entirely different pictures of the impact of the current recession on the offshore IT industry. An article in the 6 February 2002 Financial Times ("Indian Software Sector Weathers Global Storm," by Khozem Merchant) says, "Global spending on technology services may be down, but India's competitive software companies, which benefited from the spending binge, are scarcely struggling."
Article
The Impact of the Recession on Overseas Outsourcing
By Ed Yourdon
Posted September 1, 2002 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
Don’t have a login?
Make one! It’s free and gives you access to all Cutter research.