Re: FN-FORUM: grrrrr india!!!

date posted 12th January 2004 16:28

on 12/1/04 4:58 pm, Luke Perman at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> i need to think of something clever and to the point to sway a
> potential client from outsourcing their work to India...
>
> i was going to be working for the next 25 weeks modeling 3D characters
> for Java games - but now the company has decided to send the work to
> India!!!!
>
> i wonder why i bother sometimes.............. :-/
>
> luke


There is no reason why the developers in India will not do a good job, they
may do a worse but they may do a better job than you, it is not politic nor
correct to suggest that the quality will not be OK. The only route to take
is the customer service one:

Telephoning you is a sensibly priced option should support be needed;
you are UK based so can be called to account easily should you not do what
you say you will do;
you have a proven UK record with UK references

We had this debate at some point recently and I may be changing my mind a
little here but I don't think these companies are a huge threat to us, they
may be cheaper (and mostly now they are not much) but they are often unable
to offer the immediate action that a local developer can and face to face or
knowing that a developer is UK based can engender so more much trust than a
long-distance relationship

If they are set on the indian developer idea can you offer to project manage
for them?

Carla