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Comment by _the_inflator

It boils down to the Business Model.

Having worked extensively with the major Indian vendors, with people from India in different settings, onsite and offshore, I observed that they simply focus on labor costs in Europe and elsewhere.

Salespeople tried to sell us dozens of teams with “cheap” developers of every skillset we wanted.

But that is not how software is done. I want outcomes not masses. I need creativity to work on tools expressed through software not cheaper developers.

I felt sorry for my Indian dev friends that the true value of these folks was left off the board.

Salespeople always tried to solve a problem with another “cheap team”. Enter SaaS...

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