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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] Outsourcing GIS |
| Date: |
12/24/2003 07:05:01 AM |
| From: |
Mike |
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If IBM or some other large corporation has a contract problem while
outsourcing to a different country, I am sure they have enough weight to
protect themselves, but how does a small company in the mid-western U.S.
with limited resources enforce a contract with a company in India or Viet
Nam or other location? Also, how does a company with limited IT resources
know that someone isn't coding back doors and other underhanded stuff into
the software? How does a company know that its very important and propriety
business methods isn't being sold by these software developers, and if they
are, what recourse does the company have?
A few years back, I read about a firm in California that would handle all of
a small companies IT needs. They reasoned that why hire that expensive geek
to sit in the back room and fix stuff (besides no one like him anyway) when
you can out source your needs at a far cheaper price. It turned out that the
company was a scam by organized crime to gain access to the company safe.
How does a company enforce it contracts or protect its self against criminal
activity, especially when the companies they do business with aren't subject
to the same laws?
Many IT professionals tell business leaders that it is the total cost of
ownership that should be considered when looking at software
development/purchase and not just initial costs. What do you suppose it will
cost a firm when the IT company in Bangladesh they hired sells the business
practices embedded in the software they just built to their client's
competitors?
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Quartararo
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:08 AM
To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: RE: [gislist] Outsourcing GIS
Oh give it a rest. As if the Nobel prize process is even remotely
objective or somehow related to this discussion ?
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of GISex* Technologies
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:57 AM
To: Buckjl@aol.com: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Outsourcing GIS
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try.
The Truth suffers from too much analysis.Are you trying to say we Indian
making wrong maps ? please do know that it's all the way everything in GIS
is made in USA hardware-software-programmings and skill-set and in
mathematics you don't get Noble Prize.
Buckjl@aol.com wrote:In his thought-provoking book "To Engineer is Human"
Henry Petroski cites the Code of Hammurabi from ancient Babylon: "If a
builder build a house for a man and do not make its construction firm, and
the house which he has built collapse and cause the death of the owner of
the house, that builder shall be put to death. If it cause the death of the
son of the owner of the house, they shall put to death the son of the
builder. If it cause the death of a slave of the owner of the house, he
shall give to the owner of the house a slave of equal value." GIS ranges
from popular illustration thru computer science and data management to hard
civil engineering. Whom shall we "put to death" over damages from an
egregious error in a GIS record created around the world by an outsourced
technician? Whom shall we hold accountable when a homeowner cannot get clear
title to his property because a technician around the world incorrectly
encodes the property description? Whom shall we hold accountable when a
GPS-guided bomb falls on a latitude and longitude that mistakenly targets a
hospital? It's one thing to outsource a $3 padlock or the creation of
entertainment software (or hardware). But outsourcing the creation and
maintenance of the legal and technical description of civil engineering data
is another. Which leads into that other fun topic of certification of GIS
professionals, doesn't it?
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Jay L. Buckley
JLB Associates, Ltd.
11516 Dahlia Terrace
Potomac, MD 20854
301-987-7269
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