> Take TCS, they have 50K java programmers- they can't afford to retrain them. It is not so much the effort involved to retrain in a particular programming language as it is to change the prevelant culture. I am curious to see how they change and adapt, as I am skeptical that the cost difference advantage will sustain them for a much longer time.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org>wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 14:05:18 Mandar Gokhale wrote: > > Jayanth: I've come to lament the factory like nature of IT in India. > People > > learn extremely minimal subset of specialized skills. I've had chaps who > > can't see beyond .NET or Java very simply because these are industry > > idioms. I tell them stuff about perl, python or ruby and I get back "but > > those are scripting languages". > > > > > > Just a slightly unrelated question here.......doesn't the industry follow > > .NET and Java more than Python/Perl as well? (I've heard this said by > > several people in the States as well.) So maybe a change in the industry > > mindset would help.. > > there is a pecking order - generally Java programmers are at the top of the > heap. They usually would not even condescend to _talk_ to a non-java > programmer. If you cannot write 5000 lines of UML to generate 10000 lines > of > XML to generate 50000 lines of java code, you are no one. > > the next in the food chain are DOTNET guys - ability to click, drag and > drop > is essential. Ability to think is optional (at times actionable). > > and at the bottom of the food chain are the scripting guys - also useful to > send round the corner for coffee. > > but the moment these guys leave industry - guess what language they choose? > > and why do the corporates not change? Take TCS, they have 50K java > programmers > - they can't afford to retrain them. So it is not a question of Java is > best > for enterprise (we all know python is the best), but a question of > enterprise > has invested too much in java programmers and cannot afford to shift from > java > (or dotnet as the case may be) > > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Regards, Lakshman becomingguru.com lakshmanprasad.com
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