But what's interesting is the notion suggested to use by a number of attendees that the rise of interest in SaaS might be an indication of a backlash against offshore outsourcing. The common thread is that both represent strategies for organizations seeking to shed IT costs and responsibilities that they deem peripheral to their business missions.
Until last week, we never thought of the two modes of software deployment as being in competition with one another.
The rationale that SaaS might be a reaction to offshore is the argument that with SaaS, you don't have to manage teams on the other side of the world and therefore can take better advantage of agile development methodologies that could be more responsible and cost effective.
