When we first spoke, did we have a language? How did we as a people develop one? By adding to a common repository. By constantly searching new sounds and adding meaning to them, and sending these sounds (now words) back to the language. In exactly the same way, open source is making foray into the world. After a few attempts to close it out of corporate world, enterprises involved in the business of creating a common business language in IT are now openly embracing it. All good signs. That all changes to the code be shipped back to the Open Source consortium is a very good sign that the source will remain what it set out to be: open. This issue covers the subject in depth, and the contributions have been fantastic.

The career fairs in Santa Clara and New Jersey were sell-outs. As you will read, clients went home with briefs stuffed with excellent resumes. If even a small percent of this talent manages to sail home, we have achieved what we set out to do: really tap the Indian talent in the U.S. and gauge its interest in going back.

The event will be held in Chicago and Boston this month, and we are eager to see how these regions fare.

This month’s leadership section is a must-read. Balaji Krishnamurthy has done some yeoman service to corporate America by reversing the rewarding style in Planar. It is sheer logic finally recognized by the good CEO.

Romi Mahajan makes an excellent point in his “Infosys Inside.” Not to be confused with any direct reference to that shining example of Indian IT services industry, the point he makes in the need to differentiate in the service offer is very well set out.

Viji Murali deserves a special mention. As the CIO of an educational institute, and perhaps the only Indian woman in this post, Murali has set some very good changes in place at Western Michigan. While it may be ambitious to draw similarities, perhaps it is time we all looked at Universities in India?