The Indian software outsourcing firm, Wipro, is planning to have and own a large software design facilty in Atlanta, USA. The Indian based company is anticipating to hire of at least 500 computer programmers for the next couple of years. The U.S based companies have been searching a competitive edge by outsourcing a little bit of their operations to India. The Indian outsourcing firm, Wipro, has released to the public its plans of opening a software design center in Atlanta. According to the reports that Adam Davidson did was the new center is not considered as a sales office even if most of the larger foreign companies have a sales and project management facilities in the United States. In fact, Wipro alrady has a lot of sales offices. This new development of Wipro becomes interesting and surprising because it will open a software development office. Lori Kletzer, who teaches international economics at UC Santa Cruz, said that this is the first time she has heard of an Indian outsourcing firm to do this kind of opening new software development center. Kletzer also added that this move that the Wipro will make is just a sign that the Indian software industry has already undergone the process of maturation and t his move in no indication that they are just trying to be as cheap as possible because it is not just about the issue of labour costs because it is more about of the value of the product being produced. For the past seven years ago, it was all about the cheap labour costs. According to Raja Velazuami, head of international HR for Wipro, that most of the companies were hiring lots of Indian programmers for the price of just on American. American IT programmers can make a lot in comparison with their Indian competitors. The Indian based outsourcing firm already has a large number of programmer all over the globe including in India, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Eastern Europe. Those said countries are more cheaper compare to the America but the the American programmers know a lot of things. In fact, they know about the American culture and the American idioms. They are a lot of industries that need the help of a programmer. It is considered as their sort of knowledge. IN the United States, most of their programmers are require to be physically present in the operations. It is true that the outsourcing industry has gone too far. Most of the companies need that help of an outsourcers to be able to stay on the competitive edge.
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