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To be brief Lakshmi, had been part of the founding team of Cognizant, he has been with the company in its mega growth phase. When recently awarded the “<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1244684.cms">Entrepreneur of the Year</a>” award by The Economic Times, a leading business daily, the jury had this to say: “… On parameters like profitability, brand equity outside India, turnover, number of jobs created and governance, Cognizant and its founders are clearly the best of the lot.”</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Being simple and down to earth by his form and nature, this 53 year old, not out young man talks about outsourcing and its current form, adds “Outsourcing is still in its amateur stages”.</span></span></span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Outsourcing started as a way for companies to realize the benefits of lower costs. Later, they realized they could improve the quality of much of their work by taking advantage of excellent workforces. It can take six months to assemble a team in the U.S. We can have a problem solved in six months. He adds the pie of the outsourced value is just $20 billion a year, where the real potential is $200 billion.</span> </span></span> </div> <div> </div> <h4 style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </o:p>“<b>When it comes to areas such as innovation and development, the </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b style="">U.S.</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b> still is unchallenged.</b> As other countries develop, the demand for higher-end <st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> services will grow. The <st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> needs to make sure its workforce is trained to meet that demand.” </span></p> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p><b style=""><i style="">My Take: Valuable point to think. I always dream of a day for </i></b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b style=""><i style="">India</i></b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b style=""><i style="">, where Technology, Innovation takes precedence over the mundane Process and Quality followed in the Industry. (I might not carry with me wealth of experience with the industry, excuse me if I am against any your views or facts.) When there’s innovation embedded in our products and offerings, why should we after all care for the western guys shouting against outsourcing? Our products and technology would talk for itself as in every industry. On the lighter, it took me an hour to publish this post. Hats off to the terrific service provided by my ISP.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><o:p> </o:p></i><o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Category:<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/outsourcing" rel="tag">Outsourcing</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="javascript:void(rollpop=window.open('http://www.blogrolling.com/add_links_pop.phtml?u=http://psriram.blogspot.com/&t= Sriram\\'s Blog on Software, Hardware ,Technology, Cyber World, Security, Wireless, Linux','rollit','scrollbars=no,width=475,height=350,left=75,top=175,status=yes,resizable=yes'));rollpop.focus();">Blogroll Me!</a>
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What is new, and is much in evidence this week in Los Angeles, is the growing influence of Web-based development. In that realm, Google has emerged as the poster child for a new wave of applications assembled from the piece-parts of several Web sites. No Windows necessary. Microsoft has its own ideas, of course. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">With Google, there are rumors about them being interested in that services piece, but they really haven't done that much. Our search API is way better than their search API. Clearly, they are working in that area. They haven't done as much on the server piece. They had a Google server, but it was very bad at corporate search. That did not work well at all. That's the only place where I think they have done any server-type piece. Yahoo doesn't think of themselves as a platform company. I don't think you will ever have the Yahoo PDC. Google, because they are in the honeymoon phase, people think that they do all things at all times in all ways. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Clearly an interesting piece of article on the big boss comment on the Search Major. <b style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here are my views on Google and Microsoft.</span></b></span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A very positive thing for Google is clearly their innovation. Google keeps bringing new ideas which deserve a good pat for their hard work. Many analysts talk good about the google’s growth over time and project them as a real threat to Microsoft. I personally think “<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google is not mature enough to compete with Microsoft apart from the search technology</span></b>”. Though there are rumors and good amount of expectations on Google releasing their array of new products in the market, they won’t be promisingly competing and mature in comparison with the existing vendors in the market<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">. “I feel Google doesn’t have a clear view of where it’s heading to”</span></b>. What Google is doing is similar to India’s famous FMCG HLL, where they have presence and share in almost every market. Still they find it difficult to stay ahead with local and regional players. Similarly it wont be no doubt that there may be “n” number of vendors in the market, who could even release their own operating systems for local markets which may working on really small scale. And promisingly India and China who are emerging as global players are capable of doing the same. The product needs to be user friendly and cost effective to win the clients reputation with other major things to be considered. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Microsoft is facing stiff competition across various vendors. Clearly Microsoft couldn’t survive only with its flag ship “Windows” operating system. <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">I personally fell</span></b> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft would come up as a services company attracting customers</span></b>, where most of its development activities would happen across India and China. And Google would occupy a very small pie in their competitors list. Microsoft couldn’t compete with Google across all its products, where Microsoft has stiff competition from LINUX community, ORACLE, MOZILLA FIREFOX… and the list goes on. It would lose its sight if they compete with Google alone. Microsoft is making bright strides to sustain its market share.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Category: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Google" rel="tag">Google</a></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="javascript:void(rollpop=window.open('http://www.blogrolling.com/add_links_pop.phtml?u=http://psriram.blogspot.com/&t= Sriram\\'s Blog on Software, Hardware ,Technology, Cyber World, Security, Wireless, Linux','rollit','scrollbars=no,width=475,height=350,left=75,top=175,status=yes,resizable=yes'));rollpop.focus();">Blogroll Me!</a>
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Students are more concerned about their future. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Here is an extract of the article with few of my comments added.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"If you have only technical knowledge, you are vulnerable," said Thomas W. Malone, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of "The Future of Work" (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). "But if you can combine business or scientific knowledge with technical savvy, there are a lot of opportunities. And it's a lot harder to move that kind of work offshore. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Design is the area where Asian countries need to stress much on.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On campuses today, the newest technologists have to become renaissance geeks. They have to understand computing, but they also typically need deep knowledge of some other field, from biology to business, Wall Street to Hollywood. And they tend to focus less on the tools of technology than on how technology is used in the search for scientific breakthroughs, the development of new products and services, or the way work is done.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For people who stay in computing, the job outlook is brightest for those skilled in the application of technology. While jobs in categories like programming have declined since 2000, according to the Labor Department, the need for information technology experts has not. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Now its the time where application of technology to the other business pays much.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">n fact, jobs that involve tailoring information technology to specific industries or companies, like software engineers who make applications and specialized systems, have grown. Total employment among information technology professionals, the government reports, reached nearly 3.5 million by the end of last year, surpassing the previous high in 2000, when the technology investment boom peaked. </span></div> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;">At the same time, the march of computing is rippling across all academic disciplines. Even as computer science students are being encouraged to take more courses outside their major, students in other disciplines are finding more often that they need to use, design and sometimes write computer programs.<br /></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;">This trend has troubled Bill Gates, the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, who traveled to several elite universities in a campaign-style tour in the spring of 2004 to stir up enthusiasm for computer science. He plans another campus tour this fall. </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;">"There isn't the buzz and excitement about computer science that there should be," he said. "We're on the threshold of extraordinary advances in computing that will affect not only the sciences but also how we work and our culture. We need to get the brightest people working on those opportunities."</p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Ofcourse a very big article, stressing the decline in the people preferring for computer science as their core disciplines. From my perspective on this article, there are two points worth a stress.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >1) People who believe in making money by tailoring the information technology for business.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >2) Person who are more concerned on bringing new things in to the field mostly R&D, which only major players could afford.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I belong to the second category, where my thirst for knowledge and excellence stays ahead of money. I believe in making everyday a challenge, rather than literating the clients on the technology, which should be quite demanding for many. 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Some of them grew up to be the tigers of the country's fast-growing software and tech services industries, including Infosys (<a href="javascript: void showTicker('INFY')">INFY</a> ), Wipro (<a href="javascript: void showTicker('WIT')">WIT</a> ), Tata Consultancy Services, and HCL Technologies. Now, those outfits are some of IBM's toughest competitors.</span><br /><br /><span class="text">The company boosted its Indian staff from 9,000 at the end of 2003 to 23,000 at the end of last year, and, according to an internal planning document made public by a union, the total is on its way to 38,000 by the end of this year. The company says the 38,000 forecast is too high but acknowledges it will grow fast. </span><br /><br /><span class="text">Already, IBM India just blew by Japan as the company's second largest country operation -- after the U.S. "What you have seen in the past 5 years is nothing compared to what you'll see in the next 5 to 10," promises Mats Agervi, a tall, enthusiastic Swede who is vice-president for global delivery at IBM Global Services India. </span><br /><br /><span class="text">IBM is under pressure to lower the costs of service delivery. Until the Indian software services companies emerged as serious rivals two years ago, its huge services workforce was distributed primarily within the regions where the work was done. One result was that its compensation costs -- and therefore prices -- were high. With the tech bust and the rise of the Indians, that strategy no longer worked. </span><span class="text">So IBM is in the middle of a massive retooling and migration of its workforce. <span style="font-weight: bold;">It recently fired 14,000 services employees in Western Europe, the U.S., and Japan -- even while it's hiring in India and Eastern Europe. </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BM isn't the only company expanding rapidly in India.</span> Accenture (<a href="javascript: void showTicker('ACN')">ACN</a> ) has about 14,000 employees there, and Hewlett Packard (<a href="javascript: void showTicker('HPQ')">HPQ</a> ) has 10,000, according to Technology Business Research Inc. </span><br /><br /><span class="text"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The most notable point is</span> "</span><span class="text"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Indian competitors are expanding their own workforces in India -- and setting up programming and call centers elsewhere, as well. So far, though, "they're not in the same league. They don't have consulting, and they're not as global as IBM and Accenture". <span style="font-style: italic;">Infosys has come with a similar setup recently.</span></span></span><br /><span class="text"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><br /><span class="text"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="text"> The deeper IBM goes into India, the less it will seem like an outsider and the more it will become part of the local landscape. At the same time, India will be an important stop on the global talent supply chain. </span><br /><br /><span class="text">"In the future you'll have two kinds of operations. You'll have innovation factories scattered around the world, and you'll have people within countries who can deliver to clients the value created in the factories," says Agervi, IBM's global delivery vice-president. Ultimately, if IBM gets this right, IBM India will produce a lot of both. </span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="bighed"> </span> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="bighed"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Most western companies have started to restructure their process as global delivery models which has promisingly proved to be successful . India is coming up as a global competitor in services, but a more emphasis on Technology, consulting and products could be stressed.</span></span></span><br /></div> <span class="bighed"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Category:<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/India" rel="tag">India</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IBM" rel="tag">IBM</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/OutSourcing" rel="tag">Outsourcing</a><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="javascript:void(rollpop=window.open('http://www.blogrolling.com/add_links_pop.phtml?u=http://psriram.blogspot.com/&t= Sriram\\'s Blog on Software, Hardware ,Technology, Cyber World, Security, Wireless, Linux','rollit','scrollbars=no,width=475,height=350,left=75,top=175,status=yes,resizable=yes'));rollpop.focus();">Blogroll Me!</a>
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It might go something like this.</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >The Linux kernel, the GNU environment and tools, and many other free software products are made available under the GNU General Public License. </span></div> <p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Anyone can take the source code needed to compile the program, run it, distribute it, and modify it.If they distribute their changed version then it has to be under the same licence, so you cannot improve a program and then keep the improved version unless you only use it internally and privately. But anyone who wants to can "fork" the code by taking a version and beginning their own development path.</span><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> What will happen when Microsoft releases its new Linux distribution: Micrix (pronounced mick-rix)? It is everything you want. <span style="font-style: italic;">Somthing everyone want</span></span> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">It is completely cross-compatible with Windows, other versions Linux and the Mac OS. Microsoft indemnifies you against lawsuits from companies like SCO who claim Linux infringes their copyright.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Some interesting points to mention are<br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">First </span>Anyone who wants to can take Micrix and distribute it themselves, of course, and Microsoft does accept submissions for the code base from the community and looks carefully at what is happening back in Linux world, although it prefers to make its own fixes rather than just take code from the old world. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Second</span> Crucially, however, it does not listen to what Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond and the other leaders of the free and open source software movement are saying.<br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The author finally concludes</span> "<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Of course, all of this is a fantasy for the summer holidays. I have absolutely no reason to believe that such a future could come to pass.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nobody at Microsoft tells me anything, I have not heard any rumours and I do not know nothing. I am just indulging in a bit of imaginative thinking.</span>"<br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I am looking for such a move from microsoft, where they could really tap the potential open source market with their stable products ,hence help serve the open source community apart from running their own properitory Windows.</span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Category: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Open%20Source" rel="tag">Open Source</a> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="javascript:void(rollpop=window.open('http://www.blogrolling.com/add_links_pop.phtml?u=http://psriram.blogspot.com/&t= Sriram\\'s Blog on Software, Hardware ,Technology, Cyber World, Security, Wireless, Linux','rollit','scrollbars=no,width=475,height=350,left=75,top=175,status=yes,resizable=yes'));rollpop.focus();">Blogroll Me!</a>
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