| Study: Tech's six-figure salaries are shrinking
Salaries of IT managers are retreating, and most affected by the trend are managers running technology operations at mid-sized companies with less than $500 million in annual revenue, according to a study. India trade group chief criticizes proposed H-1B bill
Many in India's IT industry are calling pending U.S. Senate legislation that would restrict the use H-1B visas protectionist and anti-competitive, according to Som Mittol, the president of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), an Indian trade group. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Idaho), would limit the number of H-1B and L1 visa workers to 50% of a company's U.S. workforce. Such a limit would likely impact top Indian services firms like Infosys Technologies, which on March 31 employed 8,900 employees in the U.S. with H-1B visas, and 1,400 with L-1 visas, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. In an interview with Computerworld last week, Mittol argued that Indian firms are trying to hire more U.S. workers, but face myriad obstacles -- especially when they compete against top No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
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Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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