You might say this is just one of the outsourcing backlash articles as a company discovers their outsourced work was not ready to be outsourced. What is different it features Indian entrepreneurs in the US that had some outsourced business processes down in the Indian jungle and decided to shift work back.

"That was true even though programmers in India cost Bladelogic $3,500 a month versus a monthly cost of $10,000 for programmers in the United States. "The cost savings in India were three to one," Ittycheria said . "But the difference in productivity was six to one."

"Bladelogic's chief technology officer, Vijay Manwani, born and educated in India, predicts that once the "hype cycle" about Indian outsourcing runs its course, projects will come back to the United States "when people find that their productivity goals have not been met."

"The upshot is that high-technology corporations are likely to ship more and more business functions to India to take advantage of its well-trained work force. However, even as they do so they will keep many essential tasks here. "

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