India Vs Russia - Information Technology

Its been a while I sent my last post.I came across an article on The Hindu page no.13 on the topic
"IT oppurtunities and Challenges in Russia" which triggered this post.

A country which started its IT firm inspired by Bangalore's "Silicon Valley" is all set to overtake us in the next decade.What is the impetus behind this behemoth growth? Russian Engineers generally spend five to six years before taking up their career.Moreover they are specialists in their own fields(Maths,Physics,Chemistry) besides equipping themselves with hardcore programming skills.I have come across an Russian Mechanical Engineering student Petr who stayed first in TopCoder Programming contests for a commendable period(even now he won't be far from the top 5 slot).I felt something strange and odd on what was happening. :-) .Now I understand after all!




President of Intel Russia said that the Russians are the best in tackling complex problems."The policy we have at Intel is simple",he said in an interview "If we can,we commit difficult problems to the US engg.If the task is very labour-intensive ,we assign it to Indian specialists.If the problem cannot be solved we offer it to Russians".A statement worth byhearting.

This point by Deutsche Bank's Daniel Marovitz vividly portrays the difference between Indian and Russian Programmers."In India , people want to say 'yes' to please and to follow instructions.That can create problem sometimes.In Russia people aren't afraid to tell you that you have a silly idea that makes no sense whatsoever.But thats what you need".
Though our Indian programmers are good at solving complex problems, it is the willingness to take risk that we lack."Job Security" is the ultimate goal of every Engineer who graduates every year( invariably), except for a few rare exceptions.This has hindered us from producing high end products.How long can we serve as someone's pleaser programming what they need(outsourcing)? We need to set a standard for ourselves in the IT market.What we need is not a big "Microsoft" in India rather the efforts put by Bill Gates before starting Microsoft.For the heavy IT workforce we have in India , have we produced anything superior or atleast something in par with top notch products? Its high time Indian IT companies take a closer look at the Global market.(Vladimir Praveen :-) ).