Made in USA

With outsourcing undergoing a backlash, clever software companies are promoting their made-in-USAness. For example, from Synergis Software:

No outsourcing: Adept is “Made in America”

(BTW, the Adept software is meant for managing CAD files, especially from multiple vendors, such as for firms that use SolidWorks and Inventor.)

Comments

[Anonymous]

What's clever about this? I'd far rather buy something that's written by competent people for an affordable price, and if that means made in Europe or Asia, great. This sort of thing is very parochial and suggests the firms involved are content with their limited market and unaware of or uninterested in the wider world. Haven't they ever watched the Simpsons episode where "made in America" is seen as a badge of poor quality?

[Oldguy]

Interestingly, on this subject, is at least two Professional-quality CAD firms come to mind - but they do not tout this as a PR schtick - and both small(ish) firms
One perhaps better known by readership here is VersaCAD, the other, PowerCADD by Engieered Software (Mac based). Perhaps a loyal user-base is more important

[Evan Yares]

It's easy to get outsourcing and offshoring mixed up. I'm thinking, in this case, you're talking about offshoring?

Synergis uses Open Design Alliance libraries in their applications (As do almost all major CAD vendors *INCLUDING* Autodesk.) Our libraries are developed both domestically, and offshore, though no one seems to particularly care where our developers are, so long as they are competent and responsive. (And, truth is, our offshore developers are top-notch people.)

What may be interesting, though, is that we provide developer support for most major CAD vendors. We work with some extremely talented senior programmers at a whole bunch of companies that are household names. (You can check our member list at http://www.opendesign.com/membership/sustain.htm
if you're curious.) Our experience is that we can rarely tell where a programmer is located -- and even if we can, we can't find any distinction to show that domestic programmers are any better or worse than overseas programmers.