Amid all the media hype on offshore outsourcing, the OOBP.org (Offshore Outsourcing Best Practices) Web site pioneered a new development: a community of experts, developers, analysts and executives who share their expertise free of charge. The vendor-independent community provides access to the impartial and objective information on offshore outsourcing to small and medium-sized businesses, expanding the knowledge base of participants.
Eugene Goland, founder of the OOBP Community and president of DataArt, Inc., states: "The association's mission is to provide honest, objective information on offshore outsourcing. Small and medium-sized businesses need to be able to make decisions on the basis of hard facts, not on hearsay or rumors, which often come from big companies' anti-offshoring PR campaigns. Our association understands that reducing IT expenditures is vitally important to small companies. They cannot do this without access to accurate, impartial information which would allow them to make vital decisions. OOBP solves that problem."
