"Fuji Xerox's secret lies in networking the unnamed copier to a dedicated translation server and combining this with algorithms that can distinguish between text, drawings and lines for maintaining page layouts."
All big companies in India follow the cattle business. It has become a form of modern slavery, dubbed "IT Slavery". They just hire freshers from college in bulk, and make them billed with customer projects. Only experienced Tech Leads/Project Managers actually work in the project. Yes, Project Managers are made to code in India.
There is lot of money flowing into the country that people have never seen before, that they have no idea what it is to really do dedicated work from my experience with American hard-working people. It is very easy for people in India to get another job, and they always keep switching jobs, and it is the same shit in every big company. But, customers/clients in the US don't like people moving from their project, but, would like them to stick to their projects.
All those 'big' US companies who invested, burnt their fingers. Obviously, you don't expect them to tell it out. Nobody goes around proudly saying, 'Hey! I met with an accident!". It will also indirectly affect their business proposals/stake-holders. So, they have just had to keep their mouth shut. They have realized their mistakes now, and are bit more cautious.
Companies in India use FLOSS a lot. From my contacts, and experience with FLOSS in India in the past 1 1/2 years, this is the list that I have prepared:
David Axmark, the co-founder of the mysql project was here in India, recently, and recently gave a talk at IIT-M (http://www.chennailug.org/). He said that Indian companies are major consumers of free/open source software, but, don't produce/contribute back to the community.
Recently, there was the Debain Defconf meeting in Hyderabad, and about 1000 "developers" from India had participated, only 2 of them were Debian contributors.
Companies seldom market about FLOSS in India, where the "majority" of the masses read their news from newspapers, get updated from radio broadcasts and television broadcasts.
You can download and listen to RMS's "The Danger of Software Patents" from http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads. The audio is in.ogg format. I have made the presentation slides in.sxi and.pdf format.
Having done an undergraduate degree in India, an MS in the US and been working in India, I [shakthimaan.com] can definitely tell you that the quality of so-called "engineering" education is poor in India. I don't even consider students in engineering colleges as "engineering students". The syllabus is outdated and never reviewed, often. Students are not taught to think laterally or do they involve themselves in problem solving. Most of the time they just get a degree for the sake of a job. The HR give the tag of "software engineer" for most of the people who work in the service industry, and they really don't do any "software engineering". Its usually testing/maintenace work that comes to India. Its only cost cutting that companies send their jobs to India, trading quality for cost.
I really enjoyed the study culture in US universities. It was so dynamic and flexible. Its quite unfortunate in the US that they have good facilities and professors, but, no jobs for their quality of work.
Most Indian companies have half-implemented stringent policies in the name of corporate culture and ISO. If you get the time, do read my article on "/Work.in.India" at shakthimaan.com.
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"Fuji Xerox's secret lies in networking the unnamed copier to a dedicated translation server and combining this with algorithms that can distinguish between text, drawings and lines for maintaining page layouts."
:)
It is called outsourcing
No wonder you see code like "'(\w+\s+)(\w+)(\s+\w+)" when people fall asleep on the keyboard!
All big companies in India follow the cattle business. It has become a form of modern slavery, dubbed "IT Slavery". They just hire freshers from college in bulk, and make them billed with customer projects. Only experienced Tech Leads/Project Managers actually work in the project. Yes, Project Managers are made to code in India.
There is lot of money flowing into the country that people have never seen before, that they have no idea what it is to really do dedicated work from my experience with American hard-working people. It is very easy for people in India to get another job, and they always keep switching jobs, and it is the same shit in every big company. But, customers/clients in the US don't like people moving from their project, but, would like them to stick to their projects.
All those 'big' US companies who invested, burnt their fingers. Obviously, you don't expect them to tell it out. Nobody goes around proudly saying, 'Hey! I met with an accident!". It will also indirectly affect their business proposals/stake-holders. So, they have just had to keep their mouth shut. They have realized their mistakes now, and are bit more cautious.
Very Intense System Temperature Always!
There can be no "Control+Alt+Escape".
Companies in India use FLOSS a lot. From my contacts, and experience with FLOSS in India in the past 1 1/2 years, this is the list that I have prepared:
http://shakthimaan.com/misc/database.html
David Axmark, the co-founder of the mysql project was here in India, recently, and recently gave a talk at IIT-M (http://www.chennailug.org/). He said that Indian companies are major consumers of free/open source software, but, don't produce/contribute back to the community.
Recently, there was the Debain Defconf meeting in Hyderabad, and about 1000 "developers" from India had participated, only 2 of them were Debian contributors.
Companies seldom market about FLOSS in India, where the "majority" of the masses read their news from newspapers, get updated from radio broadcasts and television broadcasts.
You can download and listen to RMS's "The Danger of Software Patents" from http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads. The audio is in .ogg format. I have made the presentation slides in .sxi and .pdf format.
Having done an undergraduate degree in India, an MS in the US and been working in India, I [shakthimaan.com] can definitely tell you that the quality of so-called "engineering" education is poor in India. I don't even consider students in engineering colleges as "engineering students". The syllabus is outdated and never reviewed, often. Students are not taught to think laterally or do they involve themselves in problem solving. Most of the time they just get a degree for the sake of a job. The HR give the tag of "software engineer" for most of the people who work in the service industry, and they really don't do any "software engineering". Its usually testing/maintenace work that comes to India. Its only cost cutting that companies send their jobs to India, trading quality for cost.
I really enjoyed the study culture in US universities. It was so dynamic and flexible. Its quite unfortunate in the US that they have good facilities and professors, but, no jobs for their quality of work.
Most Indian companies have half-implemented stringent policies in the name of corporate culture and ISO. If you get the time, do read my article on "/Work.in.India" at shakthimaan.com.