From the Editors: New World Order

ABSTRACT

It seems that wherever you turn these days you read another headline about the increasing popularity of outsourcing software development. On a whim, I stopped by Google’s news page where a search of “outsourcing software development” produced eight stories on the first page written in the last 24 hours (with the remaining two not significantly older than that). No surprise, the headlines include such frenzied folly as “outsourcing craze,” “job fears,” and the latest entrant—“backlash.” That last one is enough to trip my sensors that global software development outsourcing is a cemented new feature of the landscape. Once there’s a backlash to something, you know it has fully arrived.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.9 Management
          Subjects: Programming teams

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.9 Management
          Subjects: Life cycle

  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Computer-supported cooperative work

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.1 THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY
      Subjects: Suppliers

General Terms:
Management, Standardization