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“Dillman [Wal-Mart’s CIO] is also getting kudos from employees for ignoring the outsourcing fad. The reason is financial: Wal-Mart's preliminary studies have shown that offshoring is more expensive than writing software in-house, Dillman says. It turns out that offshore programmers tend to take more hours to complete tasks than Wal-Mart's U.S. employees do.”

Via BusinessWeek