w1ld wrote:
] ] India could be faced with a shortage of a quarter-million
] ] information technology workers in five years unless there
] ] is reform in technical education, warned an IT industry
] ] association in the country. The supply of IT workers in
] India
] ] will likely reach only 885,000 in five years, translating to
] a
] ] shortfall of 235,000 professionals, according to Nasscom.
]
] Isn't this a good thing? As IT people in the US will have more
] jobs?!

I think the problem is in the fact that IT people in India are being recruited to work in foreign countries, not just the U.S. It says more about how non-competitive the domestic IT market is for India than anything else.

Dolemite

w1ld wrote:
] ] India could be faced with a shortage of a quarter-million
] ] information technology workers in five years unless there
] ] is reform in technical education, warned an IT industry
] ] association in the country. The supply of IT workers in
] India
] ] will likely reach only 885,000 in five years, translating to
] a
] ] shortfall of 235,000 professionals, according to Nasscom.
]
] Isn't this a good thing? As IT people in the US will have more
] jobs?!

here's a great article about this very topic. You have to register to get access to the site (free), but it's worth it.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?articleid=581&catid=10