On Apr 20, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Vitaliy wrote:

> We tried it both ways -- "true" outsourcing, and having the
> contractor work in-house. Both failed

FWIW, cisco has a long history of hiring contractors "in house" (full  
time, work at the cisco site) for extended periods of time, and I  
think it has worked out well for us.  In some cases, people have been  
hired as regular employees; in other cases not (of the people I know,  
most of the successful "not" cases have been because the contractor  
didn't want to give up the "contractor" status for a "possibly flakey  
startup.")

BillW


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