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While I was in Bangalore, I met the team of course developers who provide the content of Sun's Java courses, such as Java Programming Language (SL-275). They're a pretty cool group of people, very knowledgeable about NetBeans but, far more importantly, very knowledgeable about the Java programming language. Here's a picture I took of them:
I had an interesting phone chat with a friend based in Bangalore, India using Skype (I am based in Australia). While not going into specifics, he outlined his take home pay and as he was saying it, it hit me like a thunderbolt. His take home pay was only 10% less than my take home pay. In actual dollar terms. So, for example, if my pay was $50000, he was getting $45000 in Indian Rupees. That means, if you factor in the actual living costs, he was earning more than I was by a magnitude of at least 25 to 30% for same programming roles and equivalent experience. (And his is not an isolated example). Various feelings and thoughts went through my head, many of them unprintable (Yes, I was green with envy, but he is a friend, so I gotta be happy for him :) ). After a couple of hours, when logical thought process returned, I thought about how the cost of rising wages was likely to impact the whole process of outsourcing.
As the debates continue on the merits and ethics of getting work done for lower wages than those of local counterparts. But meanwhile, the practice of offshoring outsourcing has not only become more widespread, it has also begun to grow. Call it Offshoring outsourcing the overall view is evolving from the relatively simple idea of moving commodity work from the U.S. to other countries with the hope of reaping cost savings. These include putting variable staffing capacity, freeing internal resources, finding the best talent, increasing speed to market and support.
Christensen's thoughts are definitely relevant also for the news business. India has excellent journalists, they are well educated, the job has a decent status, and best of all: the business is doing well. The growing literacy in India ...
I was skimming through John Ribeiro's recent Infoworld article and began pondering over the points raised where he talks about how IBM's SOA centers in India and China are driving nimble services. The author argues how IBM is taking the promise of SOA reusability a step further: setting up SOA Solutions Centers at Pune, India, and Beijing. Their charter: to identify and create composite business services that can be reused by other customers in the same industry.
India continues to soar. South Asia’s largest economy will continue to lead the pack as the next IT market opportunity. A major wave of IT investments has started to take place across banks, financial services institutions (FSI), telecom, manufacturing, government, resource, education, and other industries. This is probably why India is the fastest-growing country by IT spending in 2006 (22.4 per cent) and is forecast to remain so in 2007 (21.5 per cent) when it reaches Rs 75,891 crore
Last week I visited Hyderabad in India in order to deliver a SOA Suite training for Genpact consultants that participate in a Systems Integration project for General Electric Plastics. The schedule for the training week was published on this blog earlier. It was my first visit to India. It was hot alright, but in a comfortable way as the humidity was low. And we visited at the right time: in May and June it will be summertime taking temperatures well over 40 degrees centigrade during the day time. Since we had lots of topics to cover during the week, there was little time for sightseeing. And it was as if the cab drivers knew: every day we were treated with yet another route to the Genpact office building. For Europeans with their traffic rules and regulations Indian traffic is absolutely fascinating. Streets are crowded, the number of traffic lights is low, just like the number of rear-view mirrors :-) . But rarely seen in European traffic, people in India just sort of blend into it. Honk your horn and dive right in hoping that the others will leave some room; and they will (what a relieve)! Best of all: no one gets mad.....
