From the era of Nehru and Bhabha

From the era of Nehru and Bhabha

... to the age of outsourcing

... to the age of outsourcing

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Fascinating story, says Prof Sadagopan, Director, IIIT Bangalore

Prof S Sadagopan, director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, has written  a chapter-wise ten part review of 'The Long Revolution' in his technology blog -http://ss.emergic.org

....In chapter 7 “Big boys, garage, startups and software codes” is perhaps the most fascinating chapter as it documents the Indian software story and the risk of Silicon Valley of India, namely, Bangalore along with the iconic company Infosys. It is interesting observation to link Kishanagarh in Rajasthan (the place of Narendra Patni of “Patni Computer Systems”) to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Narendra working with Lexis-Nexis to “key in” data in India and publishing in USA through his company Data Conversion Inc (DCI) is the first instance of “off shoring”. InterestinglyDCI was punching five mile of paper tape every day!.......

Read the full review at http://ss.emergic.org/page/2/ 


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