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The subheading of TFA is "Eyeing fresh business from outsourcing clients, IT firms are creating start-ups focused on disruptive technology " riiight. You crea

The subheading of TFA is "Eyeing fresh business from outsourcing clients, IT firms are creating start-ups focused on disruptive technology " riiight. You create 'disruptive' startups to get more T&M projects by projecting an image of kewl. There is a lot of unintended hilarity in that article. "A banking customer that has huge data is asking why I can’t do what Google is doing with data. " Duh, that question is going to get a very long or a very short answer. "At Wipro, Sajjad Hussain, a company veteran based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is busy creating a start-up organization that can compete with the best and most disruptive ventures in the valley. " uh oh watch out stripe, YC etc. All your best engineers are going to leave for Wipro! As someone who has friends working in TCS (and other "service companies in India) and so hear about the various shenanigans that go on in this particular bodyshop, I'll just say that any "entrepreneur" who joins TCS deserves everything (s)he gets.

thewarrior 13y ago
Your snark is misplaced. Atleast they're trying to change. You can't go from IT services to Silicon Valley overnight. Though the article was right when it said : "Some experts feel Indian tech firms should instead be freeing up the talent they already have to work on the next big thing." This doesnt happen enough .I work at a small IT firm in India. Its trying to develop its own apps in a small subsidiary it incubated with its own revenue. They aren't very successful yet. But understand that things here are changing and eventually we will catch up. There's too much potential here . Its only a matter of time.
- r0h1n 13y ago
  Erm, Indian IT services companies aren't exactly youngsters. Here are the 'birthdays' of the biggest four: - TCS: 1968 - Infosys: 1981 - Wipro: 1966 - HCL: 1991 To clarify, I'm disputing your "overnight" remark.
  - thewarrior 13y ago
    As long as their services divisions were growing fast they had no reason to look elsewhere. Now that growth in their traditional markets has slowed down they have no choice but to innovate.
    - r0h1n 13y ago
      > Now that growth in their traditional markets has slowed down... Would you care to clarify what year "now" means?

thewarrior 13y ago

Your snark is misplaced. Atleast they're trying to change. You can't go from IT services to Silicon Valley overnight. Though the article was right when it said : "Some experts feel Indian tech firms should instead be freeing up the talent they already have to work on the next big thing." This doesnt happen enough .I work at a small IT firm in India. Its trying to develop its own apps in a small subsidiary it incubated with its own revenue. They aren't very successful yet. But understand that things here are changing and eventually we will catch up. There's too much potential here . Its only a matter of time.

r0h1n 13y ago
Erm, Indian IT services companies aren't exactly youngsters. Here are the 'birthdays' of the biggest four: - TCS: 1968 - Infosys: 1981 - Wipro: 1966 - HCL: 1991 To clarify, I'm disputing your "overnight" remark.
- thewarrior 13y ago
  As long as their services divisions were growing fast they had no reason to look elsewhere. Now that growth in their traditional markets has slowed down they have no choice but to innovate.
  - r0h1n 13y ago
    > Now that growth in their traditional markets has slowed down... Would you care to clarify what year "now" means?