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Entirely different explanation: 1. India sets up the first few research organizations in Bangalore. - IISc, DRDO, HAL - decision being entirely strategic to ke
by sonink 17y ago
Entirely different explanation:
1. India sets up the first few research organizations in Bangalore. - IISc, DRDO, HAL - decision being entirely strategic to keep them away from Pak. nukes.
2. Some engineers think too much on the long lunches afforded by most govt. sector instituitions and see an opportunity in exporting software. One of these guys is narayan murthy.
3. Infosys is born and soon Patni, TCS and Wipro - each drawing from talent pool of DRDO, IISc and HAL. Obviously most start in Bangalore.
4. Engineers from across the country flock to these new high paying jobs. Some again extend their lunches too long.
- pmorici 17y agoSounds like about how Silicon Valley came to be what it is today. Government funded r&d.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoYou must be joking right? Without private engineering colleges there would not have been enough engineers for all these companies to operate. That is the point of the article. There were always enough people graduating/working who could form a nucleus of a company, but not enough people to grow it
- eterno 17y agoTypically engineers gravitate to the point of work. Its only the initial germination which matters. There are more engineers in Bangalore from outside, than locals. Probably same is true for silicon valley.
- nebula 17y agoFactually completely incorrect. 1. IISc was setup by Tatas, a private company, not by Indian Govt. Also IISc, then called Tata Institute of Science was established long before (around 50 years) British left India; nobody at that time had any clue that there was going to be Pakistan forked out of India, much less that it's going to have nukes. 2. Narayan Murthy didn't work in any of the organizations (IISc, DRDO, HAL) that you have mentioned. In fact he hadn't worked in Bangalore before Infosys was setup. 3. Patni, and TCS were there long before Infosys was founded. Narayan Murthy was working in Patni when he decided to start Infosys.