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Plus: Compared to salaries, license costs are negligible.


Exactly....for all this FUD about licensing costs, if that's the difference between make or break, or affects your profitability in a major way, then you have a lot bigger problems than your licensing cost.


We do. It works fine, no reason to switch.

My background is Windows dev, that is why "we" choose it in he first place.


Why is ODesk more popular then RentaCoder (now vWorker)?


Alexa ranks oDesk higher in terms of traffic compared with vWorker. Interestingly, the xconomy article mentions Guru.com and Elance.com but didn't mention Freelancer.com, which is neck and neck with ODesk.com.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/odesk.com+vworker.com+freelanc...


The previous link didn't compare. Here's one that actually shows the traffic comparison (for your convenience).

http://www.alexa.com/search?q=odesk.com+vworker.com+freelanc...


B E S T article about Nokia/Microsoft. And actually, I am quite sure they will follow the strategy mentioned by Mike Elgan.


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