Gee sorry guys! I made my comment because I've got a fair idea of what's available in some high profile Indian companies as I tried to sub-contract some work out to HCL Perot Systems a while ago and discovered a 'slight' infrastructure problem. I wouldn't suggest that this is universal by any means.

This doesn't reflect on the abilities of individuals or nations. In my academic life at Oxford I can recount a couple of times when distinguished professors from Switzerland and Japan have flown in after particularly celebrated and significant scientific papers to visit labs and find out how the work was done. In both cases they I'm thinking of they then flew back in disgust when they have saw how simple or spartan the facilities which were used were. You just have to substitute brains for hardware if you are poor!!

Signed - "He who calls himself Kzin!! "

PS: If it helps I'm half Indian by descent