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In many respects the developer masses in India go through more rigour than the developer masses in many countries like UK/US, essentially due to the increased c
by babul 18y ago
In many respects the developer masses in India go through more rigour than the developer masses in many countries like UK/US, essentially due to the increased competition and overall standards in general in technical education there.
However, even in India developers/firms have been gearing towards work in markets other than enterprise Java and .NET for a long time now, as the competition becomes stronger all around in those fields and first mover advantage has generally been lost/taken by the early players.
Many realise the niches (such as bespoke RoR/Python/other work for smaller clients and individuals) remains largely untapped and profitable. We will soon see more impact by smaller independant Indian firms in these areas and as tech startups in general.
- geebee 18y agoIt's hard to get good data, but I've read the opposite - that educational standards for engineers may be much higher in the US than in India and China. Here's a link to a business week article by Vivek Wadhwa, a prof at Duke: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051212_623922.htm http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051... and another by Pete Engardio on a related topic... http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf20051223_7594_db039.htm http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf200512... Btw, none of this is meant to knock the top tier, such as the IIT schools, which are excellent But we're talking about the "masses" here...