Monthly Archives: November 2005

Last week there was a conference on outsourcing in Romania. According to an article in Daily News, “The Information Technology and Communications (IT&C) industry could rely on the outsourcing activities for at most five years, stated the representatives of the Romanian Association for the Electronic and Software Industry (ARIES). Alexadru Borce, the president of the association, considers the main advantage of the local outsourcing industry is the low cost labor force, which will hike after Romania integrates in the European Union.” The ARIES official recalled for the audience present at the 6th Outsourcing Conference the ‘Hungarian reality’, which confronted the same issue: once the country became a member of the EU, the prices increased by up to 50 percent.” Continue reading →

On 18th of November, I had the chance to take part at the opening ceremony of the IT parK in Bacau. The name of the IT park is HIT Park and it’s outside Bacau (5-7 km distance) and has a surface of 10 ha. The aim of the park is Continue reading →

There is an article in InformationWeek that discuss a little the issue of outsourcing to Romania. There are some interesting figures that i will remind: there are 45,000 developers in Romania and about 8,000 graduates each year. According to the article one of Continue reading →