Why not. We have a talent pool in IT.

Why not. We have a talent pool in IT.

Very interesting interview of Rafiq Dossani. I do agree with him on what he said that the small cities and entrepreneurs working in such cities would drive India to become next knowledge and IT superpower. Some days ago I read somewhere that Indian English is killing British and American accent of English language world-wide. let the value of dollars and rupee come to the same platform and then you will see Indians software companies will be forced to search markets other than US. It will be real ’Vishwa-Vijay’ for Indians then.

The point is not whether India can produce a Google, but whether Indians have been pioneers in Information Technology.

Google changed how the world searched the Web, it beat all its competitors hands down and is the leading search engine for almost a decade now. Before Google, Microsoft changed how the world used the computer and redefined the PC making it user friendly and Internet friendly turning the whole world into one small global village and opening up the information super-highway.

Indians have proved that they can be great entrepreneurs like Dhirubhai Ambani, and we also churn out software engineers, programmers, coders etc by the millions every year who managed to embed themselves in every major company in the world and have become an indispensable workforce.

However, that doesn’t take away the fact that we have been just good followers, but not good innovators. Barring flashes in the pan like Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, Indians have virtualy nothing to show the world something that the world cannot do without - like the Microsoft Windows OS and Google search engine.

@ Jonty I disagreed on one point that we have been good followers not good innovators, We were following others because we had neither technology nor the human resource in large scale. We had no other option but to follow others and learn fast and we exactly did that. And now, the time is changing fast. We are becoming innovators too and I might not give you the data but you will see yourself the changed world scenario in coming 2-3 years. So many Indian brains are burning their oil for Google and Microsoft, just imagin what would happen when those brains leave them and start own things, it is soon going to happen...

Let me deviate you here from point of debate above. Only a mad could imagine some 5-6 years ago that In 2008, Four Indians will be placed in top 10 richest persons. If you combine Ambani brothers’ wealth they are miles ahead than Warren Buffet. Thats why I am saying that time is changing fast and anything can happen in favor of Indians.

@Pratyush:

>> We were following others because we had neither technology nor the human resource in large scale. We had no other option but to follow others and learn fast and we exactly did that.

That’s what I meant. We could never develop new technology.

>> So many Indian brains are burning their oil for Google and Microsoft, just imagin what would happen when those brains leave them and start own things, it is soon going to happen...

I already said that: we also churn out software engineers, programmers, coders etc by the millions every year who managed to embed themselves in every major company in the world and have become an indispensable workforce.

>> If you combine Ambani brothers’ wealth they are miles ahead than Warren Buffet.

How many Fortune 500 Companies do we have in India? Let’s not talk for a moment who is richer than whom. Individual wealth doesn’t mean anything.

why not,when single indian can devlope HOTMAIL why not Google?