Yes, the days of large IT shops are over - Tech Update - ZDNet My colleagues who wish to remain very technically rooted in IT face competition from a source that US manufacturing labor faced - and lost to -- decades ago: the outsourced overseas labor force. The cost of a technical function being performed offshore is being weighed against the same service done domestically, and the offshore cost is dramatically less. We all acknowledge that outsourced and offshore IT projects take more time because of logistics and quality issues; but, ultimately, economics will determine how and where IT projects are performed.

Comment: Cost cost cost... if we look at it like a pendulum and quality is the other end of the pendulum swing, there is absolutely no balance right now, it's all cost...