Amazonas State's participation in global software development projects

Abstract

Economics and technology have strongly restructured software development setting. In the last years the movement toward globally distributed software development has gathered a fast pace, which can be verified through the geographic distribution of such projects among several organizations, both big and small. This paper presents a proposal of including Amazonas State — Brazil, so far known only for housing the greatest piece of the world's greatest rain forest, as a participant agent in global software development projects, offering an alternative source of sustainability to Amazonas State's economical development.