[Rick Lee]

My experience with offshore developers is that the communication and cultural issues are so bad, that companies make that mistake once and then figure it's cheaper to pay a developer here 4-5x as much than to deal with the BS from cheaping out on offshore developers and then having to redo it all themselves anyway. My job was selling custom development, which was done in India for $25/hr. At trade shows I had to take one of the H1B guys around with me. He was a Sikh, wore a turban, had a full beard, heavy accent, you know the type. The guy was as smart and articulate as the day is long. But when a prospect, who'd had a bad experience with offshore developers, saw us coming, it was a lost cause, no matter the price.