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A 1000 jobs bloom at Sun Micro
Sun Microsystems Inc, which makes network computers and related software, said on Friday it would double the number of staff at its Indian engineering centre to 2,000 over the next two to three years.
Sun Microsystems Inc, which makes network computers and related software, said on Friday it would double the number of staff at its Indian engineering centre to 2,000 over the next two to three years.
Officials of US-based Sun said they would expand engineering centres in Russia, China, the Czech Republic and India, while holding back growth in the United States.
Stephen Pelletier, senior vice-president of global engineering at Sun, told a news conference that India and China were important both for new software development and their high-growth economies that yielded big customers.
“You can say Sun software products are all made in India,” he said. “It is obviously cheaper to do business here. But we expect in the next five years the wages to converge more.”
The company’s current plans were to grow the R&D centres in Bangalore, Beijing, St. Petersburg and Prague, Pelletier said.
India’s fast-growing mobile telephone and banking services were also significant customers for Sun, and they in turn were driving demand for innovations, he said.
