FW: offshore development

Listed below is what I pasted in from emails received by a client of mine: ---------------------------------------------------------- Dear Andrew, Chances are you're currently planning your 2004 IT budget.  You can now cut down your IT costs without compromising on your IT initiatives. Aspire Systems offers you an Onsite/Offshore team so you can not only reduce your costs but also successfully complete your planned IT projects. Our offer: A software development team of 5, dedicated to you for US $12,800/month. This special offer, valid for contracts signed before December 31st, 2003, has this incredible benefit of having the Project Leader Onsite for 3 months at absolutely NO additional cost. The Project Leader based at your premises, can work seamlessly to:     - coordinate the development efforts of the team so that there are no coordination hassles     - transfer knowledge to the offshore team     - manage and implement the project     - identify work that can be successfully moved offshore     - formulate a process for a mutually beneficial long-term partnership Our Onsite/Offshore offer will help you understand the cost implications and the savings potential when you look at offshore outsourcing as a long term strategy.  It also provides you an opportunity to test waters and develop a certain comfort level on this concept. Please mail me or call me at 1 (877) 8-ASPIRE and I would be glad to discuss this further. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Kanchana Rajagopalan Aspire Systems, Inc <http://www.aspiresys.com/?C=38349800>;

I pasted in from spam emails I received today below: How are we suppose to compete against that at $18 per hour? ----------------------------------------------------------             Offshore IT Services for $18/hr             Hi Hong,             My name is Mike Smith with Anthem Technologies Inc, an American IT firm with headquarters in New Jersey and Offshore Development center in India. I would like to invite you to a 15-minute conference call to discuss how our services can benefit your company.             Outsourcing to Anthem Technologies will expedite your software projects and reduce your time to market. At just $18/hr per developer you can get access to our Certified Microsoft, Sun/Java and IBM certified software developers, ISO 9001 quality services and State-of-the-art facilities. With a dedicated offshore development team, you will be able to produce better quality applications at just a fraction of the time and cost.                   You will find our rates to be highly competitive at $18/hr. Our Technical Expertise include                          Microsoft                          Technologies  ASP.NET, ASP, COM/DCOM, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports                          Java Technologies  Swing, EJB, JSP, Servlets, Applets, CORBA, RMI                          Web Technologies  Adobe, Flash, Dream Weaver, Cold Fusion, Director Visual  Studio,  Visual Cafe, Visual  Source Safe                          Web Servers  Apache Web Server, Netscape Enterprise Server MS - Internet  Information Server  , Rational Rose, XML,   Websphere, SGML,  WML                          Databases  Oracle, Sybase, MS SQLServer, MYSQL                          ERP  Oracle, SAP, People Soft, Navision, Great Plains, JDE                          CRM  Siebel, Vantive, Clarify                          ePersonalization  Broad Vision, Vignette, Web Methods                          Wireless                          Technologies  WAP, Nokia Server, WapLite, YoSpace, GPRS, 3G WAP  Services                          Payment Gateways  Cyber Source, Cyber Cash                          Operating Systems  Windows 2000/NT, Linux, Unix (Solaris, HP, Sco), MacOS                          AS/400, Palm OS, Windows CE.                          Generic Technologies  C / Visual C++, UNIX, PERL, CGI, RPG,  Lotus Notes                          Data Migration /                          Reporting  Dboss, Business Objects                          Security  VeriSign       Please let me know when you can set aside 15 minutes of your time to discuss how we can assist you in your software application development. Thank you for your time.       Regards,       Mike Smith       Anthem Technologies, Inc.