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Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held NetDevices, a developer of services gateway products for enterprise branch networks, based in Sunnyvale, California. NetDevices delivers a market recognized, innovative and flexible enterprise networking platform known as a Unified Service Gateway which is designed to reduce the cost and complexity of managing branch office networks. NetDevices was founded in 2003 and has 45 employees located in Sunnyvale and Bangalore, India.
A secret server farm project being sponsored by Google in India will require an enormous investment, according to a report filed earlier in the week at industry commentator's John C. Dvorak's blogsite. The server farm will reportedly ...
I had an interesting phone chat with a friend based in Bangalore, India using Skype (I am based in Australia). While not going into specifics, he outlined his take home pay and as he was saying it, it hit me like a thunderbolt. His take home pay was only 10% less than my take home pay. In actual dollar terms. So, for example, if my pay was $50000, he was getting $45000 in Indian Rupees. That means, if you factor in the actual living costs, he was earning more than I was by a magnitude of at least 25 to 30% for same programming roles and equivalent experience. (And his is not an isolated example). Various feelings and thoughts went through my head, many of them unprintable (Yes, I was green with envy, but he is a friend, so I gotta be happy for him :) ). After a couple of hours, when logical thought process returned, I thought about how the cost of rising wages was likely to impact the whole process of outsourcing.
As the debates continue on the merits and ethics of getting work done for lower wages than those of local counterparts. But meanwhile, the practice of offshoring outsourcing has not only become more widespread, it has also begun to grow. Call it Offshoring outsourcing the overall view is evolving from the relatively simple idea of moving commodity work from the U.S. to other countries with the hope of reaping cost savings. These include putting variable staffing capacity, freeing internal resources, finding the best talent, increasing speed to market and support.
Christensen's thoughts are definitely relevant also for the news business. India has excellent journalists, they are well educated, the job has a decent status, and best of all: the business is doing well. The growing literacy in India ...
I was skimming through John Ribeiro's recent Infoworld article and began pondering over the points raised where he talks about how IBM's SOA centers in India and China are driving nimble services. The author argues how IBM is taking the promise of SOA reusability a step further: setting up SOA Solutions Centers at Pune, India, and Beijing. Their charter: to identify and create composite business services that can be reused by other customers in the same industry.
Propelled by end-user demand, gaming is growing quickly as an increasing number of Indian consumers take advantage of wireless mobility to enjoy entertainment on the go. “India’s mobile gaming market will touch about $336m by 200
