Why has this page been deleted? --- Software and Software Services Industry * Body Shopping - Export of skilled labor * OEM - fixed price development * ODM - Software development services based on solution or components with chargeable royalty * OBM - Selling of software under the developer's own brand * Body shopping, OEM and ODM services are referred as "Software Outsourcing" services * 3Is software outsourcing countries, India, Israel and Ireland http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/papers/1997/dp96/index.htm Provision of Software Services is truly undergoing a change, with the emphasis being placed on more "bang" for the buck. (AmericanCulturalAssumption - meaning more value per unit of currency). The cooperation of governments in the provision of environments, physical facilities and economical incentives, is presently playing a role, which may almost be viewed as a subsidy to the industry. But the future might well prove that such efforts might provide only a short term effect. The globalization of information and communication and the freeing of the workers from physical limitations, may well prove far more powerful in the long term. ----- InformationTechnologyLandscape InformationTechnologyStrength