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There is little substance in the article. Biggest point made is that enterprise software is easier to administer and use.

I feel they entirely missed the elephant in the room : SaaS.

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Yes, SaaS and even IaaS and PaaS are the ultimate outsourcing. Outsourcing that actually works since it's not simply swapping a US based high paid human for a low paid off shore human. Instead it's swapping a human for automation, that's real savings for customers, even after margin for the automation creator.

Yep, SaaS is the real outsourcing killer. And the future seems to be one where even more infrastructure is abstracted away i.e. Serverless/PaaS. This is changing the way software is built and tested. Its empowering people who have been through coding bootcamps to start delivering value.*

* please note that I have nothing against coding bootcamps, the point is that most graduates of these bootcamps are by definition very new and green to Software Development.

I certainly feel the article could have made more of their central points, which were mainly anecdotal / common sense.

This is the part I'd like to have seen more proof and analysis around: "the Indian giants have also been unable to keep pace with technological change. Corporate software is becoming easier to use, reducing demand for their services. The lucrative legacy business of running mainframes is evaporating. Helping clients shift to the cloud makes money but not nearly as much."

They haven't. What do you think "cloud" is? (I'm a subscriber, I read the full article)

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