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In the U.S., is currently making the fear of outsourcing of IT jobs to low wage countries like China and India, the so-called offshoring, in declining student numbers. Horror stories about offshoring discouraged young people to enroll in study subjects in the IT sector, warned Yogesh Gupta, CTO of the U.S. software manufacturer Computer Associates (CA), at CA World 2005 in Las Vegas.

In Germany the number of students in IT courses such as computer science or electrical engineering in recent years has been increasing strongly. The number of computer science students climbed into the Federal Republic from 2000-2003 to 132,000 in just under 105 000, as shown by figures from the Federal Statistical Office. Last year, the number of computer science students, however, went back to just under 130,000, announced by the Federal Statistical Office.

Remarkably, the duel of the global outsourcing wave target countries, namely India and China, meanwhile, at the IT talent. Sun corporations have investments on both sides in each other’s country since been recognized as strategic direction. These are the companies including the specialists of the rivals apart.

While in India are highly skilled due to the continuing technology boom has almost become a scarce commodity in China include 400,000 engineers a year off her studies. Indian IT companies are now trying to lure these relatively cheap skilled labor. Conversely, Chinese companies looking for professionals from the subcontinent.

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