Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants

Re:Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants by zhyder on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @03:43PM (#787910)

A better term for what Zoho does is "offshoring". Outsourcing and offshoring are orthogonal. It's only when the two go together that you get sweatshops.

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Re:Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants by sridharvembu on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @10:00PM (#788472)

An even better term for us is "and Indian company with an American HQ" - in early days due to foreign exchange restrictions in India, it was painful to have the HQ in India. Increasingly that has faded as India has liberalized. We just imported a ton of Macs for our development team in Chennai; 10 years ago that would have sucked, now it is easy.

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Re:Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants by eru on Thursday August 27, 2009 @07:21AM (#789003)

So with enough liberalizing (and perhaps more Indian customers) the American HQ might move to India?

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Re:Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants by sharpn on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @07:46PM (#788342)

Good point. I like the term 'smart-sourcing' - having a presence 'on-shore' & 'off-shore' & having the customer-relationship stuff done near the customer (on-shore) & the non-relationship stuff wherever's best (sometimes, but not always 'off-shore).

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