David T Darnell ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: I've got it!
:
: The reason the HP3000 is being cancelled is because cheap, foreign IT labor
: is not being trained on the HP3000, and therefore, the HP3000 was an
: impediment to the great IT labor shortage hoax.
:
: Look for the country of India to start subsidizing it's citizens'
: education in Linux. That is, if they are not glowing embers.....
:

I haven't verified this, but Bangalore, India is allegedly 1,500 miles
from Kashmir.

There are quite a few posts to the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup
from India already.

Here's some Indian sites, the first is general news, the last two are
primarily IT news:

   o http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
   o http://www.siliconindia.com/
   o http://www.zdnetindia.com/

Tata Consulting Services has facilities spread throughout the world,
per this article (URL wrapped to two lines):

   http://www.siliconindia.com/tech/
   tech_pgtwo.asp?newsno=15021&newscat=Technology
   TCS says sets up software unit in Uruguay

  "India's largest software exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),
   said on Monday it had inaugurated a global software development centre
   in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo.

   MUMBAI: Unlisted TCS, part of the $8.5 billion tea-to-telecoms Tata
   conglomerate, said in a statement it planned to invest $30 million in
   that centre and reach an employee strength of 500 in the next five
   years.

   TCS said the new centre would handle systems development, maintenance
   and outsourcing, apart from testing and certification of software
   produced by third parties, especially Microsoft.

   Among the TCS clients the new centre will serve are Compaq Computer
   Corp, Eli Lilly and American International Group.

   The global development centre at Uruguay is the ninth such overseas
   centre set up by TCS. The others are in the United States, the United
   Kingdom, Japan, Hungary, Canada and Australia.

   TCS, which had revenues of $689 million in the year ended March 2001,
   the latest figure available, employs more than 19,000 people and has
   over 800 clients including Lucent Technologies, Nortel and General
   Electric.

   It recently bagged a contract that industry sources estimated at more
   than $100 million spread over two to three years from General Electric
   Medical Systems -- possibly the largest software order won by an
   Indian company, although TCS itself had declined to confirm the size
   of the deal."


--Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
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