The Long - Term Outlook

From a business and technical standpoint, China is becoming an increasingly viable supplement, if not alternative, to India in many areas. Changes in China are creating an ideal venue to outsource software. These include an emphasis on education, a rapidly developing economy, and the liberalization of laws and policies.

In addition, the offshore manufacturing that China has been producing for many years has created the support services infrastructure that ex-pats find necessary to succeed. As the number of global corporations investing in and entering China's growing economy increase, there will be greater opportunity to produce software products and services for the China market.

Finally, China is becoming an attractive alternative to India where surging demand makes it increasingly difficult to access quality resources and receive full attention from vendors who are so overwhelmed that can only focus on their biggest customers.