Outsourcing to Bulgaria

Although a small country by any standard (except maybe Luxumburgs), Bulgaria has a very strong tradition in IT. This might be a bold and arrogant statement to westerners but ask anyone whose been part of the Soviet bloc and they'll tell you Bulgaria was "selected" to be the bloc's Silicon Valley. Apple clones were manufactured as early as 1982 and although these facilities were dismantled with the fall of communism, they helped build an elitist geek culture that at one time produced over HALF the viruses, some of the most malicious ones.

With the fall of communism, some of these geeks have gone west but the culture of uber geeks with top mathematics skills continues. Recently, Bulgaria took four (4!) of the top prizes at the International Olympiad in Informatics in Seoul. Vietnam's team wasn't even there.