It's no secret that small businesses have a number of disadvantages when compared to their billion-dollar brethren. And these days you can add offshoring information-technology work to the list of issues that your business must overcome every day.
It might seem like a big challenge — and it is — but it's also one that can be met if you have the right information and ample motivation.
Over the last 20 years or so, billions of dollars of IT work has been shipped overseas to take advantage of low-cost skill sets in developing countries. IT outsourcing has put India on the global economic map. Eastern Europe, Brazil, Russia and China are all competing for American contracts on everything from software development to application hosting.
