The Pioneers who created India's IT Industry

摘要

It was May 1984 when I joined this fledgling industry as President of Wipro, which was then little more than a start-up, but destined to become an industry giant. In March 84, Dataquest India, the magazine which would chronicle the growth of this industry was born. The first DQ Top-10 list of May 1984 revealed an industry of Rs. 125 crores of which a cluster of computer companies contributed about Rs. 100 crores. The software pioneers, Tata Consultancy and Datamatics, had started much earlier and had been joined in 1981 by Infosys. These presumably contributed much of the balance Rs. 25 crores in the industry total of Rs. 100 crores. The top 10 companies were headed by two "biggies" of Rs.20 crores / Rs. 15 crores COM and ECILJ who would later fade away.