I heard the wage differential isn't so great these days. I also heard how
about now, assuming continuing growth at current levels, India will start
to experience its own skills shortages. Wage inflation in India is
currently at 10%. All of which would suggest job security in the West in
these outsourced areas is increasing, or at least past the point of most
rapid upheaval; and that Indian software houses can no longer compete on
price terms alone.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:11:18 -0700, RolandRB <rolandberry@HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>I thought I would mention this as I find it very revealing. US visits
>to my Spectre (Clinical) web site (link below) run at around 50% of
>all visits (fluctuating +-10%). This is to be expected with its huge,
>technology-oriented, innovative-thinking populace. But for non-US
>visits then INDIA makes up half of them. Half is an enormous share of
>"the rest of the world" and is as big a share as the US has on "the
>world". It goes the show the interest in SAS in India and their
>keeness to learn. And with their high educational standards and their
>lower wage costs then I think sas programmers elsewhere in the world
>should not become too complacent in their jobs.
>
>http://www.datasavantconsulting.com/roland/spectre/

On 31 Jul, 17:25, ben.pow...@CLA.CO.UK wrote:
> I heard the wage differential isn't so great these days. I also heard how
> about now, assuming continuing growth at current levels, India will start
> to experience its own skills shortages. Wage inflation in India is
> currently at 10%. All of which would suggest job security in the West in
> these outsourced areas is increasing, or at least past the point of most
> rapid upheaval; and that Indian software houses can no longer compete on
> price terms alone.

That's very interesting and I read the article later in this thread
that you posted a link to. Again, interesting. I would guess that
India needs this work for their own economy but they might have to
adjust to become more efficient than their Western counterparts by
employing more efficient organisational models and methodologies. But
a lot of the way they work is imposed upon them by Western companies
who have inefficient legacy systems and counter-productive
heirarchical structures that they expect their Indian counterparts to
work with. India is not known for being innovative when it comes to
organisational models and efficient methodologies but then my view
could be stunted by my British upbringing and I have a blinkered
Imperialistic view of India. Maybe it was never like that or if it
were, maybe things have changed. I know they have a lot of good
mathematicians so perhaps something has filtered across into
organisational structures.