Doors slammed on IT experts


  • Letters
  • Monday, 02 Jun 2003

A SUICIDE in faraway California has sent shock waves in the burgeoning Indian IT industry, further underscoring concerns about growing protectionism in the West against the outsourcing of jobs and services to companies located in this country. 

Still smarting under the share market shock of 2001, most IT-related companies fear that the recent death of Silicon Valley programmer Kevin Flanagan would cause more American companies to devise ways to prevent the relocation of call centres and data processing units in this country. 

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