By Paul M. Denlinger

This white paper examines some of the unique challenges Indian software companies are facing:

• The decreasing talent pool;
• Rising costs;
• Insufficient infrastructure and;
• Not enough time to train and build infrastructure

It then shows how China is the answer to their problems because:

• It has only talent pool which is large enough to compare to India’s;
• The local talent pool is still largely untapped in the second-tier cities;
• Ten cities have targeted software development as part of their development initiatives;
• Good universities provide strong training and basic skills;
• English and communication skills are swiftly catching up.