More IT Jobs Head to India and China

Computer Associates International plans to hire several hundred workers in India and China in the next year, its top executive has said. Computer Associates had about 16,000 employees at the end of March, with approximately 6,900 overseas. It dismissed about 450 employees in April as part of a reorganisation of its services business.

The Islandia, New York-based company plans to add "a few hundred people" at a software development center in Hyderabad and about 100 more jobs in China, Computer Associates Chief Executive Sanjay Kumar wrote in an internal memo. Kumar said Computer Associates' international expansion wouldn't come at the expense of its US research staff or result in layoffs elsewhere in the company.

The business software maker is the latest large US technology company to expand overseas to take advantage of lower labour costs.

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