Meerkat
11-10-2003, 05:51 PM
Windows, India Edition!
Software developers calling shots (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1620&ncid=1209&e=10&u=/sv/20031109/tc _sv/softwaredeveloperscallingshots)
What's fueling the expansion is Oracle's adoption of a "follow the sun" model for software development. It means creating duplicate research centers around the world so that when engineers in Redwood Shores are done for the day, they can hand off their project to engineers in India, compressing two shifts of software design into a single day.
To accomplish this, the database-software giant is hiring engineers at a rate of more than four each work day in India, expanding its workforce in the country from 3,000 to 4,000 by the end of 2004.
Other major technology companies are on a similar hiring spree in India. Intel, for example, will triple its employment in the country by the end of 2005 to 3,000. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft are also expanding their Indian workforces.
U.S. tech companies are scooping up Indian talent for just about every type of technical work, including the most sophisticated software-design jobs that were once a hallmark of Silicon Valley.
While the U.S. sleeps
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"The pitch is, `Work in the U.S. Live in India,' " said L. Gopalakrishnan, or "Gopal," Oracle India's director for platform technologies. "Whatever is done in headquarters is also done here. The work has come to us."
Virtually every major valley software firm now employs this follow-the-sun approach to send crucial work to India. Chip design, biotech and other sectors are embracing it too.
Well, there goes the IP and the tech base!
Software developers calling shots (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1620&ncid=1209&e=10&u=/sv/20031109/tc _sv/softwaredeveloperscallingshots)
What's fueling the expansion is Oracle's adoption of a "follow the sun" model for software development. It means creating duplicate research centers around the world so that when engineers in Redwood Shores are done for the day, they can hand off their project to engineers in India, compressing two shifts of software design into a single day.
To accomplish this, the database-software giant is hiring engineers at a rate of more than four each work day in India, expanding its workforce in the country from 3,000 to 4,000 by the end of 2004.
Other major technology companies are on a similar hiring spree in India. Intel, for example, will triple its employment in the country by the end of 2005 to 3,000. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft are also expanding their Indian workforces.
U.S. tech companies are scooping up Indian talent for just about every type of technical work, including the most sophisticated software-design jobs that were once a hallmark of Silicon Valley.
While the U.S. sleeps
.
.
.
"The pitch is, `Work in the U.S. Live in India,' " said L. Gopalakrishnan, or "Gopal," Oracle India's director for platform technologies. "Whatever is done in headquarters is also done here. The work has come to us."
Virtually every major valley software firm now employs this follow-the-sun approach to send crucial work to India. Chip design, biotech and other sectors are embracing it too.
Well, there goes the IP and the tech base!