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Can China Pull An India?

Posted by timothy on from the many-hands-quick-work dept.

ricst writes: "The New York Times has a story about how China is trying to leap ahead of India as the world's second-largest producer of software. Apparently the Chinese are trying to learn everything they can from the Indian software developers. It's not clear that if China becomes a strong competitor to India that 'jobs will be lost or simply not created' in the U.S. My guess is that the most creative software opportunities will remain in the US for some time, and the more routine development efforts will continue to be transfered overseas."

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  1. WHat a load of crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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