Lucas123 writes "Crowdsourcing, or taking a job traditionally performed by employees or a contracted company and outsourcing it to an undefined, large group of people in the form of an open call on the Web , is proving to be a viable way to develop cheap but innovative software, according to Mary Brandel at Computerworld. Sites like TopCoder and their coding competitions are becoming more popular with big name companies like Constellation Energy because programmers who take on the job are global, offering many different perspectives on any one job. "The creativity and innovation of how people are rationalizing these designs and building components enables us to interject a perspective and approach that normally we wouldn't have access to," Constellation's director of IT said." Link to Original Source
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