US personal computer giant Dell Inc announced Friday its Indian subsidiary will employ 10,000 people by year-end and will continue to expand thanks to a cheap and skilled local talent pool. Kevin Rollins, Dell's president and chief executive officer, said the company's global product group, a global development unit, sales and service operations, and call centres in India employ 8,000 people today. "By the end of this year our team should be 10,000 strong and it has been growing consistently," Rollins told reporters in the high-tech city of Bangalore, where most of the company's operations are based.
"The talent base and capability here is second to none," he said.
Bangalore, home to more than 1,500 technology firms, exports more than one-third of India's software. India, where engineers work for one-seventh the salary of their US counterparts, has the second largest pool of English-speaking graduates in the world.
Rollins said Dell had revised its revenue target from 60 billion dollars to 80 billion dollars to be achieved in the next three to four years.
"It is turning Dell from a personal computer-maker into a broad-based information technology supply company handling customers, consumers, global corporations and offering opportunities for a country like India," he said.