Re: Chinese know how to cut costs

[vamsi@siliconcorp.com]

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My suggestion is that India should not focus on getting into the business of
giving the cheapest prices for everything.  Instead, India should focus on
adding intelligence/information to the systems being developed.  Indeed, much
of "value" in technology is now concentrated in those systems that encapsulate
higher "intelligence".  For example, your ordinary telephony switches are now
produced by "cheap producers" while the intelligent Tier-1 switches and
routers are designed and developed by a few "high-valued producers" - who in
turn are able to use their wealth to add higher forms of "intelligence" and
complexity to their systems.   Design and development of such systems should
be the focus of all Indian IT firms.

Sincerely,
Vamsi M.

Arun Mehta wrote:

> http://www.economictimes.com/today/03tech07.htm
>
> India’s software MNCs look to China for cheap talent
>
> Snigdha Sengupta
> ...
> The good -- or bad, depending on your point of view -— news, is that the
>
> Chinese professional will be at least 15-20 per cent cheaper than his
> Indian counterpart.


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