Philippine software lacks promotion

22.05.2006

LOOKING ELSEWHERE

While India has gone ahead than other countries, Reade said the rising costs of outsourcing to India has forced US clients to look elsewhere.

He mentioned several factors that US companies look for in a particular country where it plans to outsource, namely: cost, attrition, English fluency, quality, difference in time zones, telecommunications infrastructure, political and currency stability, security and piracy (level) and 'relationships.'