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Originally Posted by graphical x
Short of a ton of americans moving to southeast asia starting their own design shops using local labor, I only see the price going down. If you want to firm up prices, you have to soak up the supply (remember the law of supply and demand). Since that's not gonna happen anytime soon, you'll just see more of the pattern of guys who used to work for outsource companies take a few clients with them when they leave, those clients no longer have any work, so they hit the boards doing stuff for cheap. American training + third world wages = $200 or lower monthly rates.
Probably one of the biggest barriers against price lowering is probably the price of infrastructure. I'm not sure if its taxes... I don't know if the tax police is as hardcore in SE asia as in the US or Canada/EU
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Actually, what is happening is the supply is having a VERY hard time keeping up with the demand...Prices are going up, the proof is in the numbers.
Look at how much prices have gone up in India. The same will occur in other countries.
As far as taxes, this is another issue that will drive things up.
Currently the programming industry in India is struggling in comparison to the other countries because 50% ALL profits created from the country (software production for example) goes to the Indian government.
Great for call centers though because there is no product created from call centers to pay from.
The question is, will other countries start implementing anything like this.