Developers in countries like China, India, and Brazil are much younger than are programmers in other parts of the world. And they're more likely to use open source.
The terrorist attacks in Mumbai a little while back have caused some concern that the Indian IT outsourcing industry may feel some repercussions. India remains the primary outsourcer for US companies, and this business has dramatically changed the entire Indian landscape.
ZDNet blogger Brian Sommer wrote today that service firms are in for a struggle in 2009, and I think his crystal ball has the right dope. In fact, it doesn't take a crystal ball to know that almost everybody is in for a hard time this year.
India has postponed to Jan. 30, 2009, the auction of 3G spectrum to give potential bidders more time to study bid documents and rules for the auction, a government agency said Tuesday.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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