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Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Intel,AMD and many other companies design their chips in Bangalore. e.g: Xeon 7400 series by Intel and AMD's competitor to the Xeon, called Opteron were designed in B'lore. Infineon, Cisco, GE and whole lot of other companies have chip designing operations in Bangalore.

Then I'm sure that Robert Mitchell won't mind hearing that I will no longer be getting my tech news from ComputerWorld, but http://www.siliconindia.com/ . Rog

Sun coined the slogan in 1987. Even when Windows 95 was launched nine years later Microsoft hadn't realized the power of the net and was taken by surprise, Bill Gates has admitted as much himself in interviews.

The picture is tainted. IT services make up less than 10% of India's GDP. Even though India might not represent a big market opportunity right now, but it is among the fastest growing market in every field - cars, cellphone, computers.

> Will it work? Will the USA follow if all goes to plan? Here's the answer Silicon India

Vinod Khosla met Scott McNealy and Bill Joy at the University of Califomia, Berkeley.

400 million dollars.

But this mentality seems flawed to me. The tide towards linux on the desktop has started. Trying to stop it is like the guy standing in the ocean shaking a stick at the waves.

They might be able to stop Lindows in one place at one isolated point in time. But there are thousands of potential Linux distros that could gain momentum in the retail market.

Then you should find this story interesting, from Silicon India:

• India's computer industry is booming despite a slowdown in IT sales worldwide, and its technology capital Bangalore is leading the charge. Karnataka, whose capital is Bangalore, aims to boost exports of software and allied services by 60 percent this fiscal year, twice the expected Indian growth rate of 30 percent.

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  Building on India's proven software skills, foreign firms are also flocking to set up centres to process financial claims, payroll data and build customer support desks. Commerce and English language graduates are in great demand. - While the technology sector has been hit worldwide, accompanying cost-cuttting measures are a boon for Bangalore. - "The majority of the companies in U.S. are under cost pressure and that's why we expect them to continue to move into India, which offers them a ready-made talent pool," Kulkarni said. - "Cost obviously is the driving force but that doesn't mean that quality is being compromised," he said.

  In Bangalore, software engineers can be hired for about $200 per month, nearly one-tenth of what it costs in the United States. The city of about 5.5 million people is home to over 120,000 IT workers.

No Grace Period for Laid-Off H1B Workers

And we see the bureaucratic ruthlessness raised to an art form by the INS:

Mr. Hernandez specifically negated the existence of a ten-day grace period following employment termination. There are ten-day grace periods allowed in three other instances. These are (a) the H1B worker can be admitted to the U.S. up to 10 days prior to the validity of his/her petition; (b) the H1B worker has a ten-day grace period following the expiration of the period of admission; and (c) in the case of denials of extensions, the H1B worker is given up to ten days to depart the U.S. Unfortunately, termination of employment is not covered by any of these exceptions. Some find it hard to see why a terminated H1B worker should be treated any differently from the H1B worker whose period of H1B admission has expired. There is far less warning and predictability in cases of layoffs or of other terminations.

Rumors are also circulating about a 30-day grace period should INS deny an H1B petition or extension of status and require the person to depart the U.S. There is also a 60-day time frame, proposed by the INS itself in the June 19, 2001 Memo, analyzing the American Competitiveness in the Twenty First Century Act (AC21). In this memo, the INS discussed the law allowing a person to be eligible for H1B extensions beyond 6 years if the person previously held either H1B status or had an H1B visa. The INS surmised that the law envisioned that one who previously held H1B status should be entitled, possibly up to 60 days, to the benefits of that section of AC21. Efren Hernandez clarified that none of these grace periods applies in the case of an H1B worker who is terminated or laid off.

Of course, the rules discussed above also apply to the H-4 family members of a terminated H1B worker. So if the principal H1B worker is deemed not to be maintaining status in the U.S., the INS believes all dependent family members may not be considered to be maintaining status either.