IT Development centers in Estonia
In 2012 the EU IT agency will open its office in Tallinn . This is a great achievement for the Estonian government and IT sector. Besides the EU IT agency Estonia currently hosts the following IT development centers: - Skype - Playtech - the biggest developer of online casinos is located in Tartu - NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence As always there are plusses and minuses to being a host country for something. The negative side that I have heard especially in the start-up community is that the development centers pull away potential IT enterpreneurs. " Why work in a risky start-up if you can get a good salary working for a development center?" is the argument one might hear. This negative side-effect was demonstrated in Lithuania where Barclay's Bank founded their IT sector and caused a significant salary increase in the IT sector. Though the argument of pulling away good specialists is valid the positive effects are much, much bigger: Firstly of...