Offshoring It: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

With the emergence of global data networks, in conjunction with educational investments made by developing countries, the movement to export work offshore in the United States has experienced a notable rise in popularity. An entire industry has grown up around IT Enabled Services (ITES) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). In this book, Reverend Blunden will explain who’s going offshore, who’s helping them do it, and why. In addition to presenting the pro-globalization stance that Corporate America espouses, Reverend Blunden will give voice to dissenting opinions that have been largely ignored by the media. This book offers an enlightening and detailed analysis of the phenomenon of offshore outsourcing, one that will expose the reader to the underlying core values of our economic and political system. Blunden has been directly affected by offshoring, and is writing from the programmer's point of view, for the programmer. While passionate about the topic, he and the editor are ensuring that the book presents both sides of the issue, and will appeal to people on both sides.

(Check out a recent interview with the Reverend on Code Generation Network!) Reverend Blunden tells all: who's going offshore, who's helping them do it, and why. In addition to presenting the pro-globalization stance of Corporate America, Reverend Blunden gives voice to dissenting opinions that have largely been ignored by the media. This book offers an enlightening, detailed analysis of the offshore outsourcing phenomenon, and exposes the underlying core values of America's economic and political system. Blunden has been directly affected by offshoring, and writes from the programmers' point of view--for the programmer. While Blunden is passionate about the topic, he and the editor ensure that this book presents both sides of the issue, and appeals to all readers.

Reverend Blunden began his journey into the software industry when he discovered the DOS debug utility in 1983. Ten years later, Reverend Blunden found himself implementing actuarial tools at an insurance exchange in Cleveland. Along the way, he received an undergraduate degree in Physics from Cornell University and a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve. During the subsequent ten-year period, Reverend Bill traveled around the United States, performing R&D for a middleware vendor and working with embedded security devices. Reverend Blunden has authored a number of books on system level software, including Message Passing System Internals. He has a BA in physics from Cornell and a graduate degree in operations research from Case Western Reserve. He is currently at large in the bay area. Reverend Blunden is the author of Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++, Memory Management: Algorithms and Implementation in C/C++, Software Exorcism, and Cube Farms.