What They Are Saying …

From Software Association of Oregon newsletter
Offshore software development: Is it helping or hurting our economy?
Unexpected advantages to offshore development
http://www.sao.org/newsletter/documents/Cindy_Easton_0203.pdf

While in Russia, Werner noticed that in addition to a food shortage, there was a lack of employment. Included in the ranks of the unemployed was a large number of highly educated software engineers. Werner put 23 of these engineers to work in 2000 and formed Hillsdale Corporation. Hillsdale Corporation’s Russian engineers work on software development projects for U.S. companies. ...

(Werner) is saving U.S. companies upwards of one-half of what they would typically pay for a software development project.

Daniel Werner is helping Russia with agricultural nonprofit and programming jobs
BY ALIZA EARNSHAW
Business Journal staff writer http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2001/05/14/story2.html

...the Khabarovsk contract software business has 23 programmers, and Werner spends his time on the phone and running around the Portland metro area looking for work to keep the programmers busy. Their work has been well reviewed by those who have employed them. Chris Baker and John Ruble both assigned work to Werner's team while they were working at InterTrust Technologies last year. Both were pleased with the quality of the work, and with the surprising ease of e-mailing projects halfway around the world. "The Russians were diligent and attentive," Baker said, "and clearly wanted to do a good job. They're smart guys."

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