India has the raw materials for a strong software industry - lots of English-speaking programmers with university degrees. Only America produces more of these graduates. The result is a software industry that will be worth $2.5 billion dollars in the year 2000.

Bangalore in southern India is the centre of the software industry. Distance is no object to communications with customers in Europe, Japan and the USA. Bangalore companies write software for many well-known international companies such as IBM, Microsoft and Fujitsu. The only thing holding up the growth of the industry at the moment is the lack of infrastructure. The city is expanding so rapidly that local services cannot keep pace: getting a new telephone line takes months and connections are often poor.

India can offer high quality and low prices. Wages in the Indian software industry are about a quarter of those in Europe and the USA.

“In the English-speaking World”