According to IDC: "Worldwide spending on IS outsourcing services reached $56 billion in 2000."

According to a McKinsey Global Institute report, outsourced software development is growing in Russia and CIS at 50-60% per year and is expected to continue to grow and challenge such nations as India in the outsourcing software development market.

According to American Chamber of Commerce in Russia:
"Offshore software development activity in Russia has recently enjoyed a surge in interest and activity. It is estimated that there are 5,000 to 8,000 professional programmers in the industry in Russia, and annual revenue is between $60 million and $100 million per year, growing at 40% to 60% annually.
Many well known multinational technology companies have been vigorously pursuing R&D and software development activities in Russia, including Motorola, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Boeing,and Northern Telecom." - sited from the Whitepaper on Offshore Software Development in Russia, page 5.

The dynamics of Ukrainian IT market and industry are universally expected to follow those of culturally similar Russia.

According to IDC Canada :
"The Canadian information systems outsourcing services market will experience more than 7 per cent growth from 2002 to 2006, amounting to C$1.3 billion in net new contract spending. Persistent labour supply shortages and growing acceptance of outsourcing as good business practice, in addition to industry deregulation and slow economic growth in 2001 and 2002, will fuel growth."

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