10th of July, 2000

Sociological investigations reveal about 600 000 of free programmers places are in US today. US employers need hundreds of thousands of qualified specialists in scope of Information Technologies and research activities. And this quantity is constantly growing up.

Main problems which face employer hiring professional from other country can be stated as follows:

• Overpopulation. Inflow of foreigners which come to US was growing all the last time. Government understands that country is not "rubber" and essentially restricts quantity of people coming to US from other countries. Frequently, young specialists encounter a problem getting a vise, so they just can't move to they future place of work.

• Additional funding is needed for moving people, then for they start maintenance, place and means of work accordance.

Off-shore is a type of remote work when customer and performer may not meet each other at all. Since they can be on a large distances from each other, they have contacts only through a telecommunications. Perfomer gets a target setting from the customer and give him out a ready result.

Capabilities of modern telecommunication services, mainly Internet, allow off-shore become a new perspective method of satisfying all the customers needs at least in the scope of Information Technologies.

ED Network Development Group (EDDG)

is a group of young specialists from Russia whose goal is to apply their knowledge and capabilities on solving a wide range of problems in telecommunicational, commercial, economic, social and other spheres. EDDG uses all the power of present-day achivements in Information Technology and also investigates new models and cost-effective methods for data processing.

EDDG is a well organized collective of mathematicians, programmers, system analysts, which solves the problem on a different stages from mathematical modelling till code performance evaluation. Each of them is a qualified professional in his own scope and globally experienced in other fields concerned with his scope also.

Members of the company are high-educated specialists graduated mostly from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (state university). Some of them continue education and work in leading russian scientific research institutes, such as Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computing Centre by Russian Academy of Science.

EDDG is based on off-shore principles of work. This allow to start the development process immediately after conclusion of contract between the customer and EDDG's representative person independently of the customer's location. Security of customer-performer interaction through Internet is maintained by means of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) for messages encrypting and SSL (Security Socket Layer) for remote access work.

EDDG provides the following services*:

• Software development
• Handling the web
• Data Base development
• Program interaction
• System analysis
• Mathematical modelling