Indian programmers expensive: SAP

SAP is cutting its recruitment of Indian experts because they are too expensive and is instead looking towards China.

SAP, the world's third-biggest software company, is cutting its recruitment of Indian experts because they are too expensive and is instead looking towards China, its head said.

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With Indians pricing themselves out of the market, SAP preferred to recruit in China and low-cost eastern European nations.

"India is getting too dear," said SAP chief executive Henning Kagermann in the interview with the Financial Times published on Monday.

"We've decided to only recruit a certain number more from there, and then to start looking around in other locations."

The Indian software industry, particularly companies based in Bangalore and other high-tech centres, has attracted huge interest over the past decade from international investors seeking sophisticated skills at low salaries.