The terrorist attack in Banglore on Dec 28th has made a lot of people nervous about the outsourcing industry. Of course, people who’ve been against outsourcing to begin with will seize this as yet another opportunity to talk about the drawbacks of outsourcing. Many mainstream media outlets have picked up the story and are talking about the adequacy of security measures in
Banglore.
Of course, it will take a lot more than a few terrorist attacks to turn the tide of business and technical outsourcing but this attack comes at a time when the IT industry is already under attack from the likes of Deve Gowda. Maybe the terrorists can sense that the IT industry does not have full support of the local and national government and they can get away literally with murder. In fact, I can imagine the likes of Deve Gowda almost gloating at anything that would bring the IT industry down to its knees if only because it will give back some of the power that our politicians have lost recently.