I know of only one country that has actually used the bomb (nuclear/bio/chemical) on humans. Am I being too naive? Maybe because I was fortunate enough not to receive history lessons from that country's incredible schooling system! And also because cnn.com is not exactly my window to the outside world!
Looks like some people are regarding this as a "proof" that India is finally getting there. Wrong. This article proves nothing. India has always had brilliant technical manpower, will always have, but things can't improve until Indians learn to "manufacture" stuff on a certain scale at a level of quality that makes Indian products a viable competitor in the world market. India should attempt to follow the examples of post WW Japan & Germany, and of China in recent years and improve manufacturing quality before she can be "qualified" as a supplier of goods.
On the bright side, this is a good start. And the apparent "boastfulness" of Indians may be looked upon as a rudimentary attempt at "marketing" Indianware. Marketing is important, look at it like this, how else did Microsoft's Windows or Oracle's database get "there" from their shaky starts?
I might mention here as well that post WWII US can hardly be called a manufacturing nation either. US manufacturing sucks bigtime! Is cheapness of labor the only reason why softeware development is slowly being outsourced? Do you buy a Japanese car because it is cheap? Is it really cheap?
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I know of only one country that has actually used the bomb (nuclear/bio/chemical) on humans. Am I being too naive? Maybe because I was fortunate enough not to receive history lessons from that country's incredible schooling system! And also because cnn.com is not exactly my window to the outside world!
Looks like some people are regarding this as a "proof" that India is finally getting there. Wrong. This article proves nothing. India has always had brilliant technical manpower, will always have, but things can't improve until Indians learn to "manufacture" stuff on a certain scale at a level of quality that makes Indian products a viable competitor in the world market. India should attempt to follow the examples of post WW Japan & Germany, and of China in recent years and improve manufacturing quality before she can be "qualified" as a supplier of goods. On the bright side, this is a good start. And the apparent "boastfulness" of Indians may be looked upon as a rudimentary attempt at "marketing" Indianware. Marketing is important, look at it like this, how else did Microsoft's Windows or Oracle's database get "there" from their shaky starts? I might mention here as well that post WWII US can hardly be called a manufacturing nation either. US manufacturing sucks bigtime! Is cheapness of labor the only reason why softeware development is slowly being outsourced? Do you buy a Japanese car because it is cheap? Is it really cheap?