Sandip Roy: Software Professionals Return to “Sweet Home India”
Posted on February 16th, 2009 by GD
Software engineer and journalist Sandip Roy writes in the San Francisco Chronicle that a growing number of Indian software professionals are returning to their native country to live and work, making the move from Silicon Valley to Cyberabad.
“Immigrants founded 52 percent of startups in the valley from 1995 to 2005,” according to Roy. Says one interviewee, “The trickle is going to become a flood.”
What will this mean for the U.S. software industry? Read more and don’t miss the photos by Bishan Samaddar and Roy.