SV: Re: [sdiy] Chip prices today and what about tomorrow?

[Rainer Buchty]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, karl dalen wrote:

>:Large Indian consulting firm opens its doors in scandinavia,
>:rent a engineer for "10euro" a hour!!
>
>I emideately called them up,and yes they can provide
>me with "any" type of electronics engineer for 10euro
>a hour, fpga, semi, you name it !
>
>Soo folks, time to do something else i suppose!

What, of course, is not included in those EUR10/h is increased 
communication effort for 
	+ you explaining the guy at your local office what you want
	+ him explaining the guy in India what he thinks you want
	+ you explaining the guy at your local office why the delivered
	  product is not what you wanted
	+ him explaining the guy in India again what he things you want
	+ ...and so on
	+ explaining your customer, why it takes so fscking long
	+ soothing your customer
	+ promising your customer that the product really will be ready 
	  and do what he expects it to do
	+ losing the project and eventually getting sued
	+ trying to get your money back from that outsource company

That kind of game might work if you're a big consultant company and plan 
to screw up something like the German road toll system, but not for the 
average contractor.

Rainer