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Looks like Oracle is gearing up for Indian Retail , this was bound to happen considering the size of Indian Retail . This is good for Indian retail players as Oracle will bring the technology competencies and best practices implemented worldwide. Retailers will be able to keep cost down by leveraging technology.
SAP and IBM should also announce there strategy sooner as market is to big for them to ignore.

India Today some time bad covered a story on which IT company has biggest chance of being the first 10B $ Indian company , HT has covered a good story on how big 5 TCS , Infosys , Wipro , Cognizant and HCL are taking divergent path for growth . Wipro and TCS are emphasizing on acquisitions for there growth Infosys , Cognizant and HCL taking an organic path for creating competencies . Underling features is all the companies have realized that in order to move forward the strategy should be doing highend work like moving into consultancy or focusing on competency based work.

Infosys is grappling with talent crunch as per HT , this was bound to happen reason being high attrition rate and growing competition with the likes of IBM and Accenture for retaining talent. With NASSCOM already raising concerns for quality of Engineers coming out the problem seems to be more serious .

It will be interesting to see what innovative polices Inosys bring in the future to keep the talent .