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their core competencies and take advantage of the specialized expertise of other companies,
many development organizations have transformed themselves into system prime contrac-
tors that rely on a set of subcontractors and vendors for the production of some of the
system’s subsystems (i.e., outsourcing). ese prime contractors are now evolving further
into system integrators depending even more on suppliers including both subcontractors
and vendors to provide almost all of the system’s components. To decrease the costs of both
skilled and unskilled labor, system integrators are also turning to overseas suppliers (i.e., off-
shoring) such as Indian suppliers for complex components (including software) produced by
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