Tom said:
jacob said:
OK. Just give us the address of your teacher and we will send
the code to him. There is no point to send it to you since
you seem to know NOTHING about this subject...
Dude, look at the posting IP.
It may be politically incorrect to say it but chances are he works at a
development firm, outsourced so effectively from another country. The
fact that the poster obviously has no idea of what they're doing isn't
surprising.
I'm all for equal employment across the globe. But scenarios like this
piss me off. Because it's us, the customer, who usually pay the price
in terms of shoddy applications that speak Engrish, have incomplete
piss-poor user manuals and need 17 levels of patching to do anything
useful.
Clearly the OP wants a snippet they can copy/paste into their
"application" that they are "developing". Any help we [could] give
them would just further undermine our profession.
Tom
From
www.spacedaily.com
Rising Salaries Threatens Booming Outsourcing Industry In India
Bangalore, India (AFP) Jun 25, 2006
Soaring salaries and poor quality of manpower are prompting foreign
firms to shut their outsourcing operations in India although there is no
cause for alarm yet, officials and analysts say.
US-based Apple Computer and software maker Pervasive have been joined by
Powergen, a British subsidiary of German energy supplier E.ON, in
announcing the closure of their centres in India's technology hub of
Bangalore.
"The potential cost savings of an offshore development operation can be
mathematically compelling," said John Farr, president and chief
executive officer of Pervasive Software.
"However, we have found that the complexity of managing such an
operation and the increasing costs of labour, employee turnover,
training and facilities in such a hot market as Bangalore makes it
challenging to realise those savings," Farr said.
The National Association for Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM),
India's premier software body, said salaries of freshers had shot up
between 11 percent and 15 percent in the past few years while wages for
senior managerial positions had risen by a whopping 30 percent.
Analysts said labour arbitrage for India existed only at the entry-level
where engineers earned about 9,000 dollars a year -- about one-seventh
of the wages being paid their counterparts in the United States.
Consultancy firm Stanton Chase International said salaries of managers
with 10 to 15 years experience in the US was between 100,000 dollars to
150,000 dollars (6.7 million rupees) while in India they were paid at
least 10 million rupees.
"During the start of the technology boom (in 1993) the top management
people were paid about three million rupees," G.C. Jayaprakash,
principal consultant of Stanton Chase, told AFP. "The most worrying
factor (for foreign firms) is the steep increase in salaries.
"Big companies such as Cisco, Motorola and others are only hiring
freshers and at lower managerial levels. This is for the simple reason
that IT managers from the US can be accommodated at a much cheaper
rate," he said.
Other than steep salaries the quality of manpower is also proving to be
a challenge for technology firms.
Powergen announced last week that call centres in India would no longer
be answering telephone calls from its customers due to complaints about
the poor standard of service.
Leo Puri, director in India of McKinsey and Company, said the industry
and the government needed to find ways of producing more "employable"
talent for the industry.
According to NASSCOM more than three million graduates pass out of
colleges every year and India produces 400,000 engineers anually but "of
this only a very small percentage is employable".
"Rising salaries ... is a long-term threat to the industry. In terms of
competitiveness it will hound the industry in the next three to five
years. That does not mean we must sound the alarm bells just because a
handful of firms leave," Puri said.
India continued to remain competitive compared to the Philippines or
Vietnam as labour arbitrage was only a secondary driver, he said.
"We have the capability to put together large quality oriented business
processes and have a track record of innovation. India can still deliver
a huge cost benefit and it will continue to do so for the next 15
years," Puri said.
India's software and outsourcing revenues are projected to grow between
27 percent to 30 percent in the current financial year to between 29
billion dollars and 31 billion dollars, according to NASSCOM.
Anant Koppar, president of Mphais Technologies, an outsourcing firm
which was acquired by US giant EDS earlier this month, said the
middle-level salary increase was mainly due to "supply constraints".
"We need to look at the people coming out of the institutes and make
them industry-ready. These engineers and graduates have to be tuned in
to industry's needs," Koppar said.
"The moment you have more people with skills the salary levels will come
down. Salary costs account for almost 60 percent of the total costs of a
firm," he said.
NASSCOM said it expected a shortage of 500,000 people in the outsourcing
sector in the next four years.
Sunil Mehta, vice president of NASSCOM, said despite the hurdles India
still dominated the outsourcing industry and domestic and multinational
companies operating in the country were turning profits.
"Those companies which employ fewer people and do not take advantge of
economies of scale are the ones that are facing problems," Mehta told AFP.
Source: Agence France-Presse
