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In India, whether the booming software sector will prove to be a sufficient exemplar and catalyst for change throughout the economy and government remains an open question.
In some ways this is a counter-point from many of the earlier predictions in the literature that suggested that the growth of the software industry in India was a temporary phenomenon which exploited an existing opportunity of shortage of software engineers in Western countries and benefited from the consequent moves towards outsourcing.
This paper attempts to argue that the emergence of a diverse and dominant software (SW) services industry in India is facilitated to a large extent by the range of policies and initiatives undertaken by the Indian State.
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Nguyen, Duesterwald, Klinger, Santhanam 
01 Jan 2012
6 Citations
We argue that our automated developer expertise ranking can be beneficial in the planning of a software project and is applicable beyond software support in the other phases of the software lifecycle.
The development patterns of the software industry in Ireland and India clearly show both the advantages and disadvantages of being a follower.
We conclude that developer metrics are good predictor of faults and we must consider the human factors for improving the software reliability.
Findings – The study findings indicate presence of OSS like Koha and NewGenLib in the ILMS category and Dspace, Eprints and Greenstone in the DL software category in India.
It highlights the shortcomings of outsourcing from India and suggests that software development must be rooted in a high technology policy that is integrated with the broader strategy of development.