Software companies are learning a new way of life as they help the government improve the citizen's life
Once they chased America’s H-1/L-1; now they scramble for Government of India’s L1-T1. Like the proverbial chickens, Indian IT companies are coming home to roost.
Wipro can’t do this all alone. So while it is playing the lead in designing the new system, Cisco, Sun or IBM supply products and the hardware. Not just that, it is also got it on credit. The multinationals are willing to extend credit to companies like Wipro that integrate various parts of such projects, because the order size is typically quite large. “A Rs. 50 crore order is big for them too,” says Singh of Wipro.
(This story appears in the 09 October, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)