Indian outsourcer continues strategy of expanding alternate locations to serve its global clients Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services is setting up another development facility in China, its largest outside India. The new 2,500 seat facility will be located in the Nanjing Software Park, and will be operational in the next year, the company said Thursday.Satyam, of Hyderabad, announced in November that it will increase its staff in China from around 400 to about 3,000 by 2008, in line with its strategy to use China as an alternate location to India to serve its global clients. It also announced in November that it was setting up a new software development center at the Guangzhou Software Park, with plans to have up to 1,000 staff at the facility by the end of 2008.Satyam set up its first Chinese development center in Shanghai in 2002. Since then it has set up a small development center in Dalian, and is also planning to set up a development center in Beijing where the company has a sales office. The company is setting up centers in a number of locations in China to tap into talent available in these various locations, as costs are lower in smaller cities, an executive said in November. Indian outsourcers like Infosys Technologies have set up development facilities in China to service the Chinese operations of multinational companies, and to address the local market and neighborhood markets like Japan and Hong Kong.Satyam announced in December that it was setting up a 2,000-seat software development facility in Malaysia that will service its customers worldwide. Technology Industry