Quality for programming survival

摘要

Offshoring of high-paying jobs to low-cost countries has been going on since the start of the industrial revolution. The latest casualty would appear to be the embedded programming industry, which is under attack from the aggressive training of software development skills in emerging markets. A programmer in India, China, or Russia now costs about one-quarter of what an American, European, or Japanese programmer costs. It would appear that there is little to prevent all programming jobs being sent offshore.