India to Become the Largest PHP Development Source on the Internet
印度PHP人才将在全球占有率第一

In a study released by PHPClasses, the number of PHP developers originating from India has been steadily growing in the last tree years, and the website is anticipating that it will dethrone the United States as the main provider of PHP development workforce around the Globe.

据PHPClasses.org发布，来自印度的PHP开发者在这三年中正在稳定增长，将会超过原来最多拥有PHP开发者的美国

Since industry giants like Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, Joomla, Wikipedia, YouTube, WordPress or Digg have switched to open source technologies like Linux, Apache or Memcache, a major boom has been noticed around the programming community regarding PHP development. People started paying more attention to the 14-year-old scripting language due to the huge media coverage it got.

自从这些互联网巨头像Facebook,Yahoo,Google,Joomla,Wikipedia,YouTube,WordPress,Digg都使用开源技术，由于PHP开发社区的兴旺，以及众多媒体的报道，人们更多的关注具有14年历史的这门脚本语言。

PHP communities started flourishing around the web, powered by the hype it received. Immediately, on freelancing websites, the number of PHP jobs began to grow, and professionals started taking it more and more seriously. Huge repositories of PHP-driven applications and scripts sprung around the web, and, of course, on Softpedia's scripts section.

围绕着WEB，PHP社区蓬勃发展并得到了大肆宣传，而且web站点的发展，PHP就业开始增长，PHP专业开发人员也越来越紧缺。庞大的PHP驱动应用程序和脚本发布在网上，例如Softpedia网站。

PHPClasses has a community of more than 785,000 users, and more than 5,500 submitted PHP classes and packages. Currently, based on statistics from PHPClasses, the USA are still ranked first, overall, in the numbers of developers registered on the website, but given the way the number of Indian developers has been growing lately, it is anticipated that they will surpass the US in the next two to three months.

PHPClasses这个社区目前有785，000多的用户，超过5，500的用户会提交PHP 课程和软件包。目前，根据统计PHPClasses ，美国仍排名第一，总体而言，在网站上注册的开发人员的数量，印度开发者最近一直在增长，预计他们在未来两至三个月将超过美国。

At this moment, US-based developers account for 11.83% of the total number of users on PHPClasses. India closely follows with 10.47%, and at a huge distance behind them are Brazil and Germany with 5.22% and 4.66%, respectively. This is an important growth, knowing that three years ago, India accounted only for 3% of all developers on PHPClasses, and the USA ruled the charts with a huge 20% of all users.

在这一时刻，美国的开发人员占PHPClasses用户总数的11.83 ％ 。印度接近10.47 ％ ，紧随的是巴西和德国的5.22 ％和4.66 ％ 。这是一个重大的增长，要知道三年前，印度只占PHPClasses开发人员的3 ％ ，而美国占据20 ％。 

 
Similar trends have also been noted on e-freelance websites like Elance, GetAFreelancer or Rent A Coder, where the number of Indian-based companies has grown to such an extent, that someone might think that the whole website is Indian-based or -operated.

类似的趋势也已延伸到威客网站如Elance ， GetAFreelancer或 Rent A Coder，一些印度的本土公司取得很大发展，以至于有人可能认为，整个网站是由印度本土公司操作。

Trying to understand this trend is not easy, but the fact that developing fees are almost half of what US or EU companies charge might be a good explanation for what is happening right now on the market. Actually, it's very logical, since the cost of life in the US or EU is very high, and salaries are also held at a higher mark. This is not felt in India, because of its developing economy status that has made it possible to provide an educated workforce at lower costs than other countries.
试图了解这一趋势也是不易的，但事实上，发展中国家的费用，几乎是美国或欧盟企业一半，这也许是一个好解释在目前的市场上。其实，这是非常合乎逻辑的，因为生活成本在美国或欧盟是非常高，工资也相应高。而在印度，由于其发展的经济地位，使之能够以较低的成本提供受过教育的劳动力。

Some people may argue this, saying that Indian developers are solely regarded as work-horses and not programming gurus, performing all the simple and repetitive tasks in PHP development projects. This may also be sustained by some other statistics from PHPClasses, the all-time list of the PHP Programming Innovations Awards, handed out monthly by PHPClasses for successful and innovative programming packages and classes. On that list, the USA lead the top with 342 points, followed by Brazil and Italy, with 206 and 168 points, respectively. India is ranked only eighth, with 122 points. But even skeptics can't ignore the fact that India has lately led the 2009 top ten with 47 points, followed by the US with 35.

有些人可能会这样说，印度开发者被完全视为骡马，而不是编程大师，在PHP的发展项目内，他们只是编写很简单和重复的程序。从PHPClasses一些统计来看 ，在PHPClasses上每月的PHP程序设计创新大奖，。成熟创新的软件名单上，美国为342分，其次是巴西和意大利，以206和168分。印度的排名只有第八，122分。但是，即使怀疑但不能忽视的事实是，印度最近已占2009年前十位的47分，随后是美国的35分 。

Other statistics that support the opinion that Indian programmers are not a high-quality product, and only a force by numbers, is the PHPClasses list of certified professionals. In a list provided by Mauricio Garcia for PHPClasses, it clearly shows that the most actively certified developers are located in the US (25% from the total of certified professionals), followed by a pack of EU countries like Germany, with 10.2%, Netherlands, with 8.2%, and the UK, with 6.6%. India ranks only seventh, with 3.2%, from the total of certified PHP programmers.

其他统计资料认为，PHPClasses认证的印度的专业人员程序员比较多，但质量低。在PHPClasses的Mauricio Garcia 中 ，很清楚地表明，最活跃的认证开发者位于美国（ 占总的认证PHP开发者的25 ％） ，其次是一些的盟国家，如德国， 10.2 ％ ，荷兰，8.2 ％ ，英国，6.6 ％ 。印度仅排名第七，3.2 ％

India is leading other lists on PHPClasses, like the one for the most PHP developers actively available for jobs. From the total number of professionals willing to work, India holds 15.7%, followed by the USA and Brazil, with 8.7% and 6.8%, respectively. In a list of countries with active PHP communities and groups, India is ranked second after Brazil and before the United States, with 10.5%.

印度在PHPClasses是领先的 ，比如获得的就业机会。从总数量的获得工作机会，印度拥有15.7 ％ ，其次是美国和巴西， 分别是8.7 ％和6.8 ％。PHP社区和群体，印度排名第二，仅次于巴西但美国在10.5 ％ 之前。

Studying traffic statistics from Alexa, it  can be seen that a quarter of the daily visitors accessing PHPClasses are from India, and about 15% of all visitors on Softpedia are from there too.

从Alexa的流量统计可以看出，PHPClasses每日访客，有四分之一来自印度，Softpedia也有15 ％。

In an interview given to PHPClasses by Sandeep Kadam, a leader of the PHP community in India, he had the following to say about the current status of Indian developers on the market: “In my opinion, India is one of the outsourcing destinations which is well known worldwide. [...] Many PHP programmers are being hired by the outsourcing firms for Web development activities and for their businesses. […] All sorts of companies can easily hire PHP professionals as an offshore service by companies that are providing these services at affordable prices.”

Sandeep Kadam，一位在印度PHP社区领导者，在接受PHPClasses采访说关于印度开发者的现况： “在我看来，印度是全世界众所周知一个外包目的地。WEB开发进行外包，所有类型的公司都可以很容易地聘请到PHP的专业人员并作为一个离岸服务公司，并能支付负担得起的价格。 “