Successful at commoditizing programmer talent? Perhaps.
Successful at producing high-quality software, relative to the resources they are expending on it? Not so much.
> Successful at commoditizing programmer talent? Perhaps.
Yes this is what I mean.
In most enterprise companies nowadays, developers are seen as easy to replace programming cogs.
> Successful at producing high-quality software, relative to the resources they are expending on it? Not so much.
Who cares about quality when the price is right?! :)
Being sarcastic here, I am the opinion the software industry should be under the same quality regulations and expectations as the other industries.
Usually most people return stuff that does not work properly, while with software they just live with whatever bugs the software has.
From what I can experience in the multi-site enterprise projects I participate, the industry is being quite successful at that.