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I think cloud here means products like Freshbooks, basecamp, salesforce, etc. Big companies were previously outsourcing dev + support to these to Indian compani
by asadlionpk 11y ago
I think cloud here means products like Freshbooks, basecamp, salesforce, etc. Big companies were previously outsourcing dev + support to these to Indian companies (and were bloated, also bad software, constant dev cycles fixing things) but are now turning towards these "0-programmer required" cloud apps. Which is essentially causing this decline.
- dkarapetyan 11y agoOk, that makes more sense. The article definitely misses the mark then.
- thewarrior 11y ago50 % of Indian IT is not development but "infrastructure management" which is just monitoring servers etc. With all the infrastructure being outsourced to the cloud and being managed by super small teams and highly efficient algorithms half of the business of Indian IT has stopped growing. On the other hand you have companies like IPSoft which automate monitoring your own infrastructure. The third blow is from things like Salesforce etc. Altogether it could be a bit of a major blow to growth in Indian IT. Because it never really competed on technical strength but only on cost . Now all the low cost work is vanishing and they're forced to somehow transition to 100 % dev work with the poor quality of devs they have (on average) . The article is a bit poor as it doesn't shed light on these aspects. We definitely need better articles on this subject as it's effects on India are going to be huge.