russian software developing industry and software exports

Chapter 2.
Volume and Structure of Russian Software Export
in the Schengen area programmer salaries in these
countries increased and the freedom of movement
resulted in the migration of big groups of developers
from Eastern Europe to Western courtiers with higher
living standards.
The table presenting general information about
key IT services providers gives a general idea of
Russia’s positions in the marker. Practically all data
were provided either by national association or state
bodies. Probably, evaluation designs are essentially
different as well as their ultimate objectives. Mexico
and Philippines need to be singled out from the above
countries since they are mainly involved in service
provision in the area of BPO and are significantly
lagging behind BRIC by the volume of services in
software development.
The data were presented at the Gartner summit
held in autumn 2008 in China, therefore the results for
2008 were not summarized yet, and the information
on Russia was added later.
Major IT-services providers on the Global market
Country
IT-Services export
in 2007,BUSD
IT-Services export
in 2008,BUSD
Number of people
engaged in IT-Services
export in 2007, person
India 40,8 2M
Number of people
engaged in IT-Services
export in 2008, person*
Number of IT University
graduates, person
China
1,9
(including BPO)
300K 450K 400K*
Russia 1,3 1,5 43K 50K 70K
Brazil 1 1,3*
Mexico 2,2 2,86* 91K 114K
Philippines 4,875 6,8* 299K 400K*
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