New Report Says Off-shore Outsourcing is Mostly a Myth

[asj]

The furor over the offshore outsourcing phenomenon is exaggerated, and
key IT jobs are staying in the United States, according to a new
report on IT staffing and compensation by Meta Group.

"Experience," she said, "that's what continues to sell." She added
that Internet-related specialists are in short supply, particularly
for those with expertise in application development, Java-application
management, and networking. However, demand for E-commerce skills
dropped slightly in this year's survey--15% versus 22% last year, and
25% in 2002.

Skills in high demand in IT enterprises that normally aren't
outsourced are for specialists in building out IT infrastructure,
including for database-management systems and Web infrastructure.
Other categories in demand include customer-relationship management
and enterprise resource planning.

"Application-development skills also continue to be highly sought
after, as are Oracle and Java application-management and networking
experience," Schafer said. "The consistency with which these skill
sets are mentioned is a strong indicator that not enough is being done
to develop these capabilities."

Not surprisingly, pay has increased for the most in-demand positions.

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[Grover Cleveland]

The furor over the offshore outsourcing phenomenon is exaggerated, and
key IT jobs are staying in the United States, according to a new
report on IT staffing and compensation by Meta Group.

Not only that -- I think that most of those offshore firms are going to
have their hands busy with internal work -- India has had a 7% growth rate
for the last few quarters according to Bloomberg...that will mean demand
for developers...