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The euro-america centric view in claiming that India failed in software is simply absurd. India has giant software companies powering one of the most advanced g

The euro-america centric view in claiming that India failed in software is simply absurd. India has giant software companies powering one of the most advanced governance, finance and business societies and not to mention a major destination for the west to outsource software jobs!

makeitdouble 4y ago
We're not talking about straight failure. There's giant companies all over the world and sure they'll produce software. But the FAANG/MANGA/Whatever acronym for the five/six near monopolies aren't from India. If I'm in Korea and tomorrow I want to use a cloud provider, I won't choose an Indian one short of wanting to market to India. But chances are it will be an US one. That's the gap I am pointing at.
- shreyshnaccount 4y ago
  I see where you're coming from but that is a very narrow view only taking into account B2C service type software, and that too for a sample size of you. Not to mention the fact that FAANG hires a ton of Indians
  - makeitdouble 4y ago
    Is Cloud Services B2C ? or computer OSes ? Do your Indian giants give their sales team laptops with an Indian OS managed through an Indian Directory system backed by an Indian Cloud, and make them build spreadsheets and presentations on an Indian Office suite ? I know there are serious efforts to cover all this ground, but have they landed ? I’d actually see China landing first on that scenario, and while the future is too murky to say anything, if they ever get through the tunnel they’re in now, they’ll have rebuilt the whole stack literally down to CPU technology.
    - shreyshnaccount 4y ago
      The phrasing in the previous comment makes me think that you are talking about a B2C aspect. The point in trying to make is that software industry is much larger than the specific examples you mentioned, which are also very "English speaking user facing" for lack of a better word

makeitdouble 4y ago

We're not talking about straight failure. There's giant companies all over the world and sure they'll produce software. But the FAANG/MANGA/Whatever acronym for the five/six near monopolies aren't from India. If I'm in Korea and tomorrow I want to use a cloud provider, I won't choose an Indian one short of wanting to market to India. But chances are it will be an US one. That's the gap I am pointing at.

shreyshnaccount 4y ago
I see where you're coming from but that is a very narrow view only taking into account B2C service type software, and that too for a sample size of you. Not to mention the fact that FAANG hires a ton of Indians
- makeitdouble 4y ago
  Is Cloud Services B2C ? or computer OSes ? Do your Indian giants give their sales team laptops with an Indian OS managed through an Indian Directory system backed by an Indian Cloud, and make them build spreadsheets and presentations on an Indian Office suite ? I know there are serious efforts to cover all this ground, but have they landed ? I’d actually see China landing first on that scenario, and while the future is too murky to say anything, if they ever get through the tunnel they’re in now, they’ll have rebuilt the whole stack literally down to CPU technology.
  - shreyshnaccount 4y ago
    The phrasing in the previous comment makes me think that you are talking about a B2C aspect. The point in trying to make is that software industry is much larger than the specific examples you mentioned, which are also very "English speaking user facing" for lack of a better word