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Subject:Re: India - Wave of the Future? From:John Cornellier <cornellier1 -at- stavanger -dot- oilfield -dot- slb -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:09:51 +0200
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 07:40, Srivathsan Raghu wrote:
> For our organization of 17,000 employees + about 5000 contract workers, we
> must have only about 50 writers!
Srivathsan, I'm just speculating here, but is possible that a lot of the software work Infosys does is maintenance and bug fixing (of existing products); this would generate less need for documentation than new software development?
John Cornellier
"Offshore" in the mountains of Norway