Mphasis sets up new facility in Hyderabad

[TheBrahmabull]

3 minutes ago, sairamnfdb said:

Microsoft's passage to India

 

Naazneen KarmaliForbes Staff

I write about Asia's wealth creators.

This article is more than 2 years old.

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When Bill Gates was looking for a location for Microsoft's second software development center outside the U.S. (the first was in Israel), he chose Hyderabad, capital of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

This surprised a lot of people. When they set up shop in India, most computer companies opt for Bangalore, 500 kilometers south of Hyderabad (see map). The Silicon Valley of Bangalore is teeming with talented software engineers. Typical annual salary for a new hire: $4,100. IBM, Intel and Compaq are only a few of the computer companies that have hung out their shingles in Bangalore in recent years.

By comparison, Hyderabad, the former home of the nawabs (Indian princes), is a backwater. Andhra Pradesh is one of India's poorer states; over 70% of its 73 million inhabitants live in countryside villages. Hyderabad (pop. 3 million) doesn't have an international airport.

So why did Gates choose Hyderabad? Because successful Bangalore is now bursting at the seams. Cars clog the roads. Power regularly fails.

Real estate prices are high. Companies often pay stock options to keep valued employees, but even then retaining workers is a problem.

Hyderabad, on the other hand, is just beginning to take off. Few traffic jams or overbooked restaurants here. $75,000 buys you a house in a good neighborhood that would cost almost $100,000 in Bangalore. Newly minted software engineers typically work for $3,500 a year, 15% below Bangalore scale, and there are plenty of them: About one in four Indian software engineers is a native of Andhra Pradesh, according to a survey by Nasscom, a software industry association.

Hyderabad has something else going for it: Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh's ambitious chief minister. Naidu, 48, would like nothing better than to upstage Bangalore. Recognizing that Microsoft would attract more technology companies to Hyderabad, Naidu lobbied Gates hard when the multibillionaire visited India last year. He promised that Microsoft would receive favorable tax treatment (he essentially said that he would match the tax incentives that other states offer), continuous power supply and 8 hectares of land reserved for their center.

So far Naidu has been keeping his promises. "The local government has been very helpful," says S. Somasegar, an Indian-born general manager at Microsoft who's in charge of setting up the center. "They're also investing to improve the infrastructure." The World Bank has agreed to lend Naidu's government more than $1.5 billion for, among other things, building new roads and water supply projects.

Rushing to build up to the critical mass that Hyderabad needs to compete against Bangalore, Naidu's government has leased out buildings to house a new Indian Institute of Information Technology, where IBM has started a training school. Oracle will be investing over $10 million in a software development center in Hyderabad that will employ 250 people and is to open in late July. And Hitec City, a commercial complex built by a public/private partnership, will be opening in August. Naidu beams with pride: "Infotech is bound to emerge as a strategic sector which will both generate wealth and create employment opportunities."

Hyderabad: You'll be hearing more about it in the years ahead. n

ippudu neeku Bill gates own words kavala ?

[TheBrahmabull]

5 minutes ago, sairamnfdb said:

Microsoft's passage to India

 

Naazneen KarmaliForbes Staff

I write about Asia's wealth creators.

This article is more than 2 years old.

•  
•  
•  

When Bill Gates was looking for a location for Microsoft's second software development center outside the U.S. (the first was in Israel), he chose Hyderabad, capital of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

This surprised a lot of people. When they set up shop in India, most computer companies opt for Bangalore, 500 kilometers south of Hyderabad (see map). The Silicon Valley of Bangalore is teeming with talented software engineers. Typical annual salary for a new hire: $4,100. IBM, Intel and Compaq are only a few of the computer companies that have hung out their shingles in Bangalore in recent years.

By comparison, Hyderabad, the former home of the nawabs (Indian princes), is a backwater. Andhra Pradesh is one of India's poorer states; over 70% of its 73 million inhabitants live in countryside villages. Hyderabad (pop. 3 million) doesn't have an international airport.

So why did Gates choose Hyderabad? Because successful Bangalore is now bursting at the seams. Cars clog the roads. Power regularly fails.

Real estate prices are high. Companies often pay stock options to keep valued employees, but even then retaining workers is a problem.

Hyderabad, on the other hand, is just beginning to take off. Few traffic jams or overbooked restaurants here. $75,000 buys you a house in a good neighborhood that would cost almost $100,000 in Bangalore. Newly minted software engineers typically work for $3,500 a year, 15% below Bangalore scale, and there are plenty of them: About one in four Indian software engineers is a native of Andhra Pradesh, according to a survey by Nasscom, a software industry association.

Hyderabad has something else going for it: Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh's ambitious chief minister. Naidu, 48, would like nothing better than to upstage Bangalore. Recognizing that Microsoft would attract more technology companies to Hyderabad, Naidu lobbied Gates hard when the multibillionaire visited India last year. He promised that Microsoft would receive favorable tax treatment (he essentially said that he would match the tax incentives that other states offer), continuous power supply and 8 hectares of land reserved for their center.

So far Naidu has been keeping his promises. "The local government has been very helpful," says S. Somasegar, an Indian-born general manager at Microsoft who's in charge of setting up the center. "They're also investing to improve the infrastructure." The World Bank has agreed to lend Naidu's government more than $1.5 billion for, among other things, building new roads and water supply projects.

Rushing to build up to the critical mass that Hyderabad needs to compete against Bangalore, Naidu's government has leased out buildings to house a new Indian Institute of Information Technology, where IBM has started a training school. Oracle will be investing over $10 million in a software development center in Hyderabad that will employ 250 people and is to open in late July. And Hitec City, a commercial complex built by a public/private partnership, will be opening in August. Naidu beams with pride: "Infotech is bound to emerge as a strategic sector which will both generate wealth and create employment opportunities."

Hyderabad: You'll be hearing more about it in the years ahead. n

same article purthiga chadavaledemo..

[TheBrahmabull]

3 minutes ago, sairamnfdb said:

Please read that Forbes article from 1998 brother. CBN pitch was not the main reason. Microsoft felt Hyderabad was ideal die to cheap labor, real estate and availability of man force. If the same was available in Bangalore,  CBN ki Bill gates PA appointment kooda dorikedhu kaadhu. Bill gates bag aadadu annihilations free ga kotteyadaaniki. 

nuvvu endi babau akkada appudu Administration lo vunna IAS cheppina .. neeku nuvvu edo articles techukoni

[TheBrahmabull]

4 minutes ago, sairamnfdb said:

Please read that Forbes article from 1998 brother. CBN pitch was not the main reason. Microsoft felt Hyderabad was ideal die to cheap labor, real estate and availability of man force. If the same was available in Bangalore,  CBN ki Bill gates PA appointment kooda dorikedhu kaadhu. Bill gates bag aadadu annihilations free ga kotteyadaaniki. 

Bill gates own words kavala ? baga patha articles dig chese alavatemo - ask same google..

[sairamnfdb]

1 minute ago, TheBrahmabull said:

ippudu neeku Bill gates own words kavala ?

Bill Gates perspective endhuku brother. He will obviously say what will help get subsidies to his company. He will praise whoever is in power when he needs a favor . I'm again reiterating CBN is a good leader who sensed opportunity and grabbed it. He is not a visionary. He followed SM Krishna and J H Patel template from Bangalore. 

[sairamnfdb]

1 minute ago, TheBrahmabull said:

Bill gates own words kavala ? baga patha articles dig chese alavatemo - ask same google..

Come on brother. Appati article gives the correct perspective of how everything ws then . That Forbes article captures all details of that time when MS was established. It clearly states why Hyderabad was given preference to a more established Bangalore. It was not like CBN was better than SM Krishna. He just had the right resources and luck. 

[RaaoSaab]

32 minutes ago, TheBrahmabull said:

come on now - dont be a nit picker. let me post the Video once again so every tom dick harry in this thread are trolling with idiotic facts..

 

Let’s assume that whatever IAS said is 100% true that govt didn’t have any money and it was going every where with a begging bowl and with that bowl he got Microsoft to Hyderabad. Naidu and his son both carried the upgraded begging bowl for amaravathi, why couldn’t he replicate the same for Amaravathi?

whatever Ias said is true...Hyderabad had potential and the administrators pushed to use that potential. IT revolution has changed the face of world’s economy not just Hyderabad and Hyderabad ni nenu develop chesa ani cheppukovachu kani nenu lekapothe meeku assal e revenue ledu anedi waste...

[snoww]

6 minutes ago, RaaoSaab said:

Let’s assume that whatever IAS said is 100% true that govt didn’t have any money and it was going every where with a begging bowl and with that bowl he got Microsoft to Hyderabad. Naidu and his son both carried the upgraded begging bowl for amaravathi, why couldn’t he replicate the same for Amaravathi?

whatever Ias said is true...Hyderabad had potential and the administrators pushed to use that potential. IT revolution has changed the face of world’s economy not just Hyderabad and Hyderabad ni nenu develop chesa ani cheppukovachu kani nenu lekapothe meeku assal e revenue ledu anedi waste...

Baboru latest gaa kooda bill gates Ni kalisaaru . But still Amaravati lo Microsoft enduku raaledo Mari Ani adigithe Edo thokkalo cover drive istharu pulkas. 

[snoww]

1 minute ago, snoww said:

Baboru latest gaa kooda bill gates Ni kalisaaru . But still Amaravati lo Microsoft enduku raaledo Mari Ani adigithe Edo thokkalo cover drive istharu pulkas. 

Pulkas version. Bill gates and Microsoft vallaki appati varaku assalu Hyderabad ento kooda teliyadu. Babori 5 minutes presentation soodagaane bill gates on the spot agreed to setup Microsoft office. With out doing any other prior research or enquiry. Only by seeing babori speech and face  bill gates agreed.  

[sairamnfdb]

1 minute ago, snoww said:

Pulkas version. Bill gates and Microsoft vallaki appati varaku assalu Hyderabad ento kooda teliyadu. Babori 5 minutes presentation soodagaane bill gates on the spot agreed to setup Microsoft office. With out doing any other prior research or enquiry. Only by seeing babori speech and face  bill gates agreed.  

This is wrong assumption. The real reasons are captured in the Forbes article I posted above:
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So why did Gates choose Hyderabad? Because successful Bangalore is now bursting at the seams. Cars clog the roads. Power regularly fails.

Real estate prices are high. Companies often pay stock options to keep valued employees, but even then retaining workers is a problem.

Hyderabad, on the other hand, is just beginning to take off. Few traffic jams or overbooked restaurants here. $75,000 buys you a house in a good neighborhood that would cost almost $100,000 in Bangalore. Newly minted software engineers typically work for $3,500 a year, 15% below Bangalore scale, and there are plenty of them: About one in four Indian software engineers is a native of Andhra Pradesh, according to a survey by Nasscom, a software industry association.

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[EisMcSquare]

56 minutes ago, sairamnfdb said:

I mentioned brother. Microsoft research raadaniki CBN played a major role. 

MSFT Research akda   Vundhi  neeku telsa first?   

[sairamnfdb]

1 minute ago, EisMcSquare said:

MSFT Research akda   Vundhi  neeku telsa first?   

Sorry brother. Its in Bangalore. I should've said development center in Hyderabad. 

[snoww]

1 minute ago, sairamnfdb said:

This is wrong assumption. The real reasons are captured in the Forbes article I posted above:
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So why did Gates choose Hyderabad? Because successful Bangalore is now bursting at the seams. Cars clog the roads. Power regularly fails.

Real estate prices are high. Companies often pay stock options to keep valued employees, but even then retaining workers is a problem.

Hyderabad, on the other hand, is just beginning to take off. Few traffic jams or overbooked restaurants here. $75,000 buys you a house in a good neighborhood that would cost almost $100,000 in Bangalore. Newly minted software engineers typically work for $3,500 a year, 15% below Bangalore scale, and there are plenty of them: About one in four Indian software engineers is a native of Andhra Pradesh, according to a survey by Nasscom, a software industry association.

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I am aware of all the facts since I am from Hyderabad. 

Intha dappu kottukunna babori time lo 2004 ki vachina IT companies cyber towers, tcs building, couple of mind space buildings and few others. 

Real growth happened after 2004. With Gachibowli and financial city areas.  But I give credit for that to everyone. Not just one man planning.