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MS India chairman Ravi Venkatesan has great words of wisdom for us.
The interviewer asks questions like:

Being a world leader, in a sense, in the software sector, can’t Microsoft make piracy-proof products?

To which Mr.Chairman answers:

Every time somebody invents a better mouse-trap, criminals figure out how to break that.

It’s interesting to see how easily the common […]

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“It is difficult to believe we are in India,” gushed Finance Minister P Chidambaram, speaking at the 25th anniversary celebrations of Indian infotech giant Infosys Technologies Ltd at the company’s magnificent campus in Mysore on Sunday evening.
“This could be the Silicon Valley in California, this could be Stuttgart, this could be France, this could […]

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A prominent college in Coimbatore is charging 14 to 21 lakhs for admission to their B.Tech IT course this year - so says todays `Malayala Manorama’. Students from Kerala are reportedly flooding Coimbatore looking for professional college admission because of the confusion with regards to self financing colleges here.
Vivek says Microsoft has taken 8 […]

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It’s the middle of the 6th sememster (in Calicut University) and it seems that we are going to witness really *massive* campus recruitments; for instance, a Technopark based firm is planning to take in 3000 fresh hands this year.
Once they get placed, a majority of even the good students lose all interest in their […]

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This is the title of an Ad in today’s Hindu (Opportunities) by STC Technologies, an instituition which trains software `testers’! Maybe, the intention is to convey that software testing is something cool like literary criticism.
What will happen if someday we are able to write s/w which has no defects and which can be mathematically […]

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India does not produce enough computer engineers and those it does are good at theory but not very well equipped to handle the practical aspects, according to Microsoft Corporation’s Chief Technical Officer Craig Mundie, who is on a visit to India.
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Why the hell does M$ then hire so many Indians?
Anyway, glad to […]

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Two interesting articles:
Did you know that 75% of the world’s CMM Level 5 software centers were in India? Here’s how the quality movement transformed the Indian IT services industry….
Outside the “First World offices” of the Indian software and BPO firms is a huge and crowded Third World country with all its challenges and limitations. […]

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Here is what the top guy at Infosys, Nandan Nilekani, told the New York Times.

The whole process where people get an idea and put together a team, raise the capital, create a product and mainstream it — that can only be done in the US. It can’t be done sitting in India. The Indian […]

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India Today, dated Aug 22, 2005 has some great things to say about India (and especially the Indian `Infotech’ industry) - it’s that time of the year when we are `celebrating’ independence and it’s great to know that the Indian race, endowed with superior `brainpower’ is making giant strides in the world of hi-tech.
Let’s […]

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A news item on Slashdot says that the original Bell Labs Unix group (with guys like Rob Pike, Kernighan, Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy) has been disbanded - most of the researchers have left the lab, some to become university Professors, others to work in companies like Google. There have been lots of interesting user comments - […]

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