--- Nikhil Joshi nikhiljoshy@yahoo.com wrote:
The facts: (CT Sept .2001) 1.Indian IT market share $23.1 billion. growth rate 31.6% 2.Indian nationals employed in IT and telecom in US: 250,000 3.Indians in Microsoft in R&D : 32% 4.Q1 revenue due to software in 2001-2002 : 8,600 crores withgrowth rate of 52 % !!!
All this money was not made by creating and selling software that we use at home. It was made by creating specific solutions for specific problems that companies face and need to address. Repeat, _very few_ people actually work in a position where branded software is created!
Now I am not in this field, but I can take a small example which I hope is not entirely off the mark. Consider a big RDBMS like Oracle, which is used in many such solutions. If that is replaced by a better open source RDBMS that is available to all, won't that help our "IT" (sic) companies to create better solutions? Think about it and try to extrapolate. The money is not made in software programming, it is made by providing services.
SameerDS.
===== -- MTech Student Reconfigurable Computing Lab KReSIT, IIT-Bombay
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