Esther Dyson from made a bet with 's chairman Bill Campbell that in 2012 Wall Street Journal and New York Times would call Russia the world leading software developer. She put a $5,000 stake on that although if she had to pick only one country as a futurе world's IT major, it would be India. The problem with Russian IT is the lack of skilfull marketing and planning to add to programmers' talent, she explained.
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