Speaking at the Open World annual developer conference in Mumbai, Oracle President Charles Phillips said the company is ramping up the expansion of its operations in India and will increase its workforce to 10,000 in the next eight months. The new workers will be in the areas of sales and marketing, product development, consulting, and product support and services.The software company’s current Indian workforce strength of 8,600 is about 17 percent of its 51,000 global workforce. It already operates in six Indian cities.
Under the expansion plan, the company will start operating in 15 Indian cities within the next eight months.The Redwood Shores, California-based software company is following the lead of many technology companies this year that are expanding their operations and workforce in India to take advantage of the country’s fast-growing economy.Oracle’s entry to India came in 1987 through a distribution agreement with a partner.
In 1994, Oracle was one of the first software companies to establish an India development center, which is its largest research and development center outside of the United States. The company currently has two development centers in the south Indian cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore.
