India is a world renowned software powerhouse. In the 1960s, the “father of software in India” Curley introduced the concept of software to India. India has a large percentage of illiterate people, but it has 410,000 software technicians and the number is growing.

MP226-EW It is worth mentioning that India has 1,832 educational research institutions and institutes of technology, training about 70,000 computer software professionals every year. A third of software engineers in the United States are now Indian, and a staggering 250,000 have moved into Silicon Valley. Some people compare India to relying on the top 2% of the pyramid to drive 98% of the common people. No wonder Bill Gates, after his first visit to India, asserted that India has the potential to become a software superpower in the next few years.

The successful application of software export strategy is an important link for Indian software industry to go to the world. There are two main export strategies for the development of India’s software industry. One is the so-called “onshore service”, that is, by Indian software companies to send engineers to foreign customers, stationed in the final design; The second is the so-called “offshore service”, that is, the software program is developed in India, transferred to the client for testing and installation. These two businesses once accounted for 57% and 35% of India’s software output, respectively. It is worth mentioning that India provides mainly custom software services, and the proportion of branded MP226-EW software packages is very small. Therefore, India’s software industry model belongs to “software foundry”.