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To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (3835)	1/30/2006 9:54:02 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219468

India has been leveraging cheap IT manpower and a network of overseas expats and emigres. Overseas Indians buy from India itself sicne they share the business culture. It has a head start on what is called OUSOURCING that and no one will catch them up as you say. Competing with India are the Eastern Europeans and the Latin Americans. The Eastern Europeans do NEARSOURCING for the businesses that Indians can't economically do. Brazil also produces cheap IT resources. Majority of them work for the internal market and a small subset works for the external market. The idea is for Brazil alone -other Latin Americans are on the side- get a significant part of the IT business based on its internal strengths. Not in the external strengths as India has a headstart on that. India achieved that headstart because of lack of competition. Brazil's lousy IT policies that now have been reverted. A internal large economy. India IT internal economy is small. larger telecommunitions network. India has state-owned telecoms High PC and Internet penetration. India still needs some catching up to do in that respect. There will be a lot of money going into that and India will continue doing well if the manage to keep pushing ahead.

To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (3835)	2/10/2006 11:25:42 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219468

Siemens drops Bangalore from expansion plan `Employees reach office tired after spending hours on the road' Bangalore: Siemens Ltd. has decided to freeze all expansion plans in Bangalore in the wake of crumbling infrastructure in the city. "There will be no more expansion plans in Bangalore. Bangalore is not attractive for investors anymore", company's Managing Director Jurgen Schubert said here on Friday. This is the strongest vindication of the worsening infrastructure in the city from the head of a global manufacturing giant. Siemens was one of the first to set up operations in Bangalore with huge investments. Apart from the manufacturing base for automotive sector and servicing workshop for industrial turbines, Bangalore is a hub for telecom, medical and automotive software development and high-end research and development work for Siemens. Its outsourcing arm alone employs about 900 people in Bangalore. Bangalore accounts for one-third (around 4600 employees) of the company's employee strength of over 12,000 in India and contributed 24 per cent of the turnover in India last fiscal, whereas the southern region has 45 per cent (about 5,500 employees) of the employee strength. Mr. Schubert told The Hindu that Siemens will look at cities such as Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and even Kolkata to expand its business activities. "Bangalore is in a mess. The road and power infrastructure is chaotic. Besides, you can't get hotel rooms here," he said. Efficiency and productivity will be hit if employees spend more time on the road, travelling to work, he said. "If you have running operations, workers will have to come on time. But what is happening in Bangalore is that employees are spending more and more time on the road. If workers reach office tired after spending long hours on the road, efficiency will come down," he said. Siemens has decided to shift its working hours in Bangalore to 7.30 a.m. from 8.45 a.m..