12-03-2003, 08:56 PM
Sorry Vishal, didn't get to respond to your <i>Nov 25 2003, 05:09 PM</i> post earlier.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tell me what is better for us, to make indian microsoft or to serve microsoft? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's a easy one. But to date we don't have a Microsoft and there's nothing stopping India and Indians from building one.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Believe me Viren, this ITES,call center is all crap.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I agree to a extent. Call center and backoffice operations are business set up by India and Indians (maybe to a extent with outside colaboration). But it's a good decent business that is employing a good number of Indians and for other Indians to accumulate wealth.
I would like to see India being a backoffice to the entire world rather than a few western nations. That's the best +ve psy ops we have can have.
Mind you we should also have India and Indians creating products and companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell etc. Building products and having service industries need not necessarily depenedent on each other. We should and we can excel in both.
I for one personally know of Indians in India who are buying business in US to expand marketshare and/or get a foot into US markets. I am personally involved in such transactions. Trade and business goes both ways.
My comment on Dell pulling the plug on operations in India was more towards the nature of the -ve psy-ops against India. I had posted couple months ago Dell himself making a comment favoring outsourcing to Ireland. The foxnews report I had mentioned lists a <b>xtian minister</b> who complains of 'Indian accent' (Dell is based in the bible belt). Having managed people and business myself I can state that one just doesn't shut down a business because of complaints from a individual here or there. Managment usually takes note of the problems and takes measure to correct these problems. Shutting business is a last resort.
There's more to this Dell story than meets the eyes.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tell me what is better for us, to make indian microsoft or to serve microsoft? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's a easy one. But to date we don't have a Microsoft and there's nothing stopping India and Indians from building one.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Believe me Viren, this ITES,call center is all crap.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I agree to a extent. Call center and backoffice operations are business set up by India and Indians (maybe to a extent with outside colaboration). But it's a good decent business that is employing a good number of Indians and for other Indians to accumulate wealth.
I would like to see India being a backoffice to the entire world rather than a few western nations. That's the best +ve psy ops we have can have.
Mind you we should also have India and Indians creating products and companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell etc. Building products and having service industries need not necessarily depenedent on each other. We should and we can excel in both.
I for one personally know of Indians in India who are buying business in US to expand marketshare and/or get a foot into US markets. I am personally involved in such transactions. Trade and business goes both ways.
My comment on Dell pulling the plug on operations in India was more towards the nature of the -ve psy-ops against India. I had posted couple months ago Dell himself making a comment favoring outsourcing to Ireland. The foxnews report I had mentioned lists a <b>xtian minister</b> who complains of 'Indian accent' (Dell is based in the bible belt). Having managed people and business myself I can state that one just doesn't shut down a business because of complaints from a individual here or there. Managment usually takes note of the problems and takes measure to correct these problems. Shutting business is a last resort.
There's more to this Dell story than meets the eyes.