There are many instances of Indian companies co-developing American products or Indians in India working for American subsidiaries enhancing and sustaining commercial American products. Startup and niche companies have been developing commercial products for some years now.
Writing a new application or adding new functionality to an existing one? No way. There are less painful ways to run a death march project.
Beg to differ. Many Indian companies develop PRODUCTS, not custom apps, for overseas customers. Some of these are in complex domains such as CAD or graphics. You may want to check out this company It's customer list reads like a who's who (7 of the top 12) of the CAD world.
This is basically IT-enabled services for tele-marketing, helpdesk support, medical transcription, back-office accounting, payroll management, maintaining legal databases, insurance claim and credit card processing, animation, and higher-end engineering design -- all of which can be delivered by phones, computers and the Internet.
India is aiming to become "the world's back-office."
Now this is something the Chinese cannot grab in a hurry at all!
McKinsey estimates the market for this to be half a trillion dollars by 2008. Even if that sounds far-fetched and we discount it by a factor of 10, it would still mean massive amout of money.
Finally India is coming into its own. Just as oil transformed the Persian Gulf, India has found its oil - her people which are her greatest strength.
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There are many instances of Indian companies co-developing American products or Indians in India working for American subsidiaries enhancing and sustaining commercial American products. Startup and niche companies have been developing commercial products for some years now.
Writing a new application or adding new functionality to an existing one? No way. There are less painful ways to run a death march project.
Beg to differ. Many Indian companies develop PRODUCTS, not custom apps, for overseas customers. Some of these are in complex domains such as CAD or graphics. You may want to check out this company It's customer list reads like a who's who (7 of the top 12) of the CAD world.
In all three things China has much better situatiosn than the US.
You seem to be a victim of Chinese propaganda. All is not well in China as this book says
According to this article over at CNN.com, India wants to become the back office of the world.
This is basically IT-enabled services for tele-marketing, helpdesk support, medical transcription, back-office accounting, payroll management, maintaining legal databases, insurance claim and credit card processing, animation, and higher-end engineering design -- all of which can be delivered by phones, computers and the Internet.
India is aiming to become "the world's back-office."
Now this is something the Chinese cannot grab in a hurry at all!
McKinsey estimates the market for this to be half a trillion dollars by 2008. Even if that sounds far-fetched and we discount it by a factor of 10, it would still mean massive amout of money.
Finally India is coming into its own. Just as oil transformed the Persian Gulf, India has found its oil - her people which are her greatest strength.