Online marketplaces like RAC (www.rentacoder.com) offer enough reason to generate effusive prose. It's the kind of place where 110,000 software programmers from across the world log on to earn a living. Of these, roughly 50,000 are Indians --all the way from Srinagar to Bhatinda, and Surat to Nagercoil. Put the 70-80 marketplaces like RAC together and a picture emerges of approximately one lakh Indian software programmers who generate about a billion dollars every year. At sites like RAC, mostly small and a few mid-sized American companies hoping to outsource their IT requirements post details of jobs that need to be...