Outsourcing To Middle East

If software outsourcing had only a few primary targets so far, now it seems the entire Middle East is doing the best possible to be the next in line, and when I say "best possible", I am talking about really big things. Just keep reading to find out...


First, it's Egypt - a country that I wasn't expecting to arrive that fast in the crowd of outsourcing destinations, especially considering what happened recently - a company called Smart Village set up a location called Smart Village Cairo, where over 100 buildings are housing large IT companies, such as Dell, IBM, Microsoft or Ericsson, each of these having its own buildings. Needless to say that Egypt has enough workforce to supply these companies with people good for their jobs, and wages are extremely small compared to what they should get in the US or Western Europe for their work...

Leaving Egypt aside, there's China. Despite the fact they are still a communist country, it seems they understood the western ways perfectly, and they are thinking BIG. Just thing about this - 1 million-apartment complex as a part of a business park, where the government pays the mortgage, as well as worker's transport to and back from work! I can't even imagine 1 million IT workers in the same area, so I won't try!

Do I have to say more? Let me hear your opinions about the future of outsourcing to Middle East, and the future of the Western economies, because this is really a hot subject these days, and it seems to get hotter with each day...