On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Sarad AV wrote:
"Today, Bangalore stands ahead of Bay Area, San Francisco and California, with a lead of 20,000 techies, while employing a total number of 1.5 lakh engineers."
I live in bangalore,those figures are correct.
Meaning that 150,000 engineers are employed in Bangalore? Does this include software engineers, HTML coders, programmers, computer scientists? Does it include say railway engineers, truck mechanics, the guy who fixes your air conditioning? The term 'engineer' is far from precise; in the UK most people who work with tools can be called engineers but people who write software generally are NOT called engineers. There are further complications: for example, in certain parts of the United States (Texas comes to mind), you cannot describe yourself as an engineer without being certified as such by the state. You can be a mechanical or civil engineer, but not a software engineer, because there is no relevant test. One of the consequences of this is that Texas vastly undercounts its engineers. The civil/mechanical/etc engineers have lobbied successfully for such restrictions on the use of the job title in other states (and Canada?). There are frequent articles in ACM journals complaining about this; people who have been software engineers for decades are breaking the law if they describe themselves as such in Texas. In the same vein, what does 'techie' mean in the article quoted? When the article says that Bangalore has a lead of 20,000 techies over California, exactly what is this supposed to mean? For years Japan led the world in the use of robots because they counted as robots devices that were not counted as such in the USA and Europe, simple pick-and-place arms. I suspect that much the same thing is going on here. -- Jim Dixon jdd@dixons.org tel +44 117 982 0786 mobile +44 797 373 7881 http://jxcl.sourceforge.net Java unit test coverage http://xlattice.sourceforge.net p2p communications infrastructure