[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2018 8:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/16/18 7:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> In the case of Cobol, how much Cobol development is now done in India
>> and similar places ? 
> 
> None of the stuff I have posted.  No US Government work is offshored
> (for some rather obvious reasons.)  Banks tend to keep things in house
> where they can be closely watched.  None of the Insurance Companies I
> have ever had any contact with outsource any of their development or
> maintenance.  And the Largest Credit Card clearinghouse is definitely
> all onshore and hires additional staff regularly.

Really?

Are there any major US banks that are not getting IT work done in India?

>> In the case of Fortran especially, the latter type of usage is not going
>> to show up on the job boards as "Help! Fortran programmer wanted!".
> 
> Good researchers would hire real programmers to write and maintain
> their code.  Their time is too valuable to spend it keyboarding and
> they usually know what their strengths and weaknesses are.  Scientists
> and engineers are seldom computer whizes and they know it.

It happens quite often that people with background in physics,
economics etc. does this kind of work.

Yes - they may be lagging a bit in programming skills, but the
IT folks are lagging even more in domain knowledge. And elaborate
requirements documentation is not common in this domain.

Arne