It might seem as if IT pros, as a general rule, are anti-outsourcing, but that’s not necessarily the case. The outsourcing wave has made it possible for a number of information technologists—including mainframe and minicomputer programming veterans—to embark on a very different career path: as outsourcing services providers. Outsourcing isn’t for everyone, and—as some displaced IT pros admit—it probably wouldn’t have been their first career choice, but there are advantages.
Some IT pros fell into outsourcing as a result of layoffs, early retirement offers, down-sizing initiatives—or (ironically) outsourcing-related job cuts on the part of one-time employers. Others came to outsourcing for an entirely different reason: to vet their own projects, be their own bosses, and (to some degree) to work their own hours
