Reply #7: Your assessment is wrong [View All]

[jmatthan]

The quality of life at a tenth of European or American cost is considerably better in India.

Foreigners cannot understand that until they stay there for a few years.

Again, programmers of quality are available all around the country but they have not and will not converge on where the outsourcers want to go. This mobility is not something that can be expected.

What you are seeing is a very limited view of the outsourcing issue. The more sensible companies know that in India you take the job to where the programmers are, not the other way around.

Indian companies such as WIPRO, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, have no major problem getting the staff they require.

If I wanted to start a company I could give you 50000 programmers of top quality in less than a month - but not at the location that you may want but at a location which I know has the resource and at a price I know is fair for the Indian Standard and Cost of living and meeting all the strict labour laws that exist!!

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland