US software major Sun Microsystems Inc. will double its India workforce to over 2000 in the next two to three years, besides focusing on building products to tap the booming local market, company officials said on Friday.
"We are doubling our India workforce from 1,000 to 2,000. India and China are emerging as the biggest and fastest growing markets. They are adopting technology unbelievably faster than traditional (developed) markets," Sun global engineering division senior vice president Steve Pelletier told reporters in Bangalore.
He said India R&D hub, the company's largest outside the US, has contributed to building software for all of Sun's products in the global market. "You can say Sun's software products are made in India," he said.
Sun invests $1.9 billion on R&D, he said, but declined to give investment details for India, China, Russia and eastern Europe, which the company sees as the fastest growing R&D hubs.
"We have overinvested in the US, while we have under invested in all the other centres. Our growth will be in these four geographies," Pelletier said.
Besides Bangalore, Sun has R&D hubs in Prague in Czech republic, St Petersburg and Beijing.
Sun vice president engineering Vijay Anand said the Indian market has thrown open a lot of opportunities and challenges due to the rapid scaling of operations and Sun was building products for the local market.
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