CIOL reports that PTC is upping its staff in India to 900 over the next three years. Currently, 600 work in Pune, India. The facility will be expanded by 35,000 square feet to accommodate the extra 300 programmers, who develop Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink.
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India will soon be squeezed into marginality by virtue of competing western resource demands. This is discussed heavily in several WSJ articles. The issue is that Intel, MS, Dell, IBM, Sun, Autodesk, etc are all vying for talent in a limited pool. Indian universities can't crank them out fast enough, and competition is driving salaries and perks up, just like, well, US employment trends did in the 80's and 90's. That may likely shift the focus to other sources of skilled but cheap(er) labor. Maybe Indonesia, Vietnam or remote provinces in China. Who knows. Within a few decades it will be much harder to find skilled cheap labor anywhere on the planet. That is of course unless Africa and Middle-East nation don't stop killing each other over stupid territorial or religious differences.
As for PTC trying to pump up their presence: good luck. They've got a lot of competition for programming talent there. And most of their competitors have much deeper pockets.
Posted by: skatterbrain | May 29, 2006 at 06:50 PM