Understanding the cultural differences and acting accordingly is clearly one of the sensitive issues on the whole offshoring agenda. For example in India they discovered that fingerprinting the programmers for security reasons touched a very sensible chord on the Indians - fingerprinting is considered offensive in the Indian culture. I think that this is an important card Romanians can play in the offshore project contracting - besides being Europeans Romanians are fairly adaptable and rather open minded.

Actually today I was just talking about this with an industry executive and he agreed that besides the creativity and good education Romanian culture plays an important competitive advantage. As for the setbacks in Romania becoming a regional offshoring pole a problem may be the difficulty to set up big teams (300+) for scaling up big bux projects (billions). Perhaps the industry consolidation both at the national and regional level may soon emerge such a big player - I think I can see IPDevel heading that way.