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100	1		_aSharma, Dinesh C., _eauthor. _924693
240	1	0	_aLong revolution
245	1	4	_aThe outsourcer : _bthe story of India's IT revolution / _cDinesh C. Sharma.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _c[2015]
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2015]
300			_a1 PDF (xviii, 274 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aHistory of computing
500			_aOriginally published as: The long revolution.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index.
506	1		_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aThe rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to less than $100 million in 1990, and today come close to $100 billion. But, as Dinesh Sharma explains in The Outsourcer, Indian IT's success has a long prehistory; it did not begin with software support, or with American firms' eager recruitment of cheap and plentiful programming labor, or with India's economic liberalization of the 1990s. The foundations of India's IT revolution were laid long ago, even before the country's independence from British rule in 1947, as leading Indian scientists established research institutes that became centers for the development of computer science and technology. The "miracle" of Indian IT is actually a story about the long work of converting skills and knowledge into capital and wealth. With The Outsourcer, Sharma offers the first comprehensive history of the forces that drove India's IT success.Sharma describes India's early development of computer technology, part of the country's efforts to achieve national self-sufficiency, and shows that excessive state control stifled IT industry growth before economic policy changed in 1991. He traces the rise and fall (and return) of IBM in India and the emergence of pioneering indigenous hardware and software firms. He describes the satellite communication links and state-sponsored, tax-free technology parks that made software-related outsourcing by foreign firms viable, and the tsunami of outsourcing operations at the beginning of the new millennium. It is the convergence of many factors, from the tradition of technical education to the rise of entrepreneurship to advances in communication technology, that have made the spectacular growth of India's IT industry possible.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/28/2015.
650		0	_aComputer software industry _zIndia _xHistory. _924694
650		0	_aInformation technology _zIndia _xHistory. _924695
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _924696
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _924697
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780262028752
830		0	_aHistory of computing _921548
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7176538
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