March-2003 issue
Cover Feature
Author: Karthik Sundaram
MUCH OF HUMAN PROGRESS HAS COME ABOUT because someone invented a better and more powerful tool. Informational tools are symbolic mediators that amplify the intellect rather than muscle the users...A great deal of work now involves...
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Cover Story
Karthik Sundaram
MUCH OF HUMAN PROGRESS HAS COME ABOUT because someone invented a better and more powerful tool. Informational tools are...
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Velan Thillairajah
DO A GOOGLE SEARCH ON THE TERM “WEB Services” and you’ll come up with nearly three million hits—and literally thousands...
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Cover Feature
Pradeep Shankar & Subhash Desai
A FEW YEARS BACK THERE WAS MAINFRAME legacy. Today there is the ERP legacy. Companies have deployed many enterprise packages...
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Fred Meyer
OVER THE PAST HALF DOZEN YEARS, TREMENDOUS strides have been made integrating disparate software systems. Flexibility,...
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Chet Kapoor
An approach to Integration that looks at the needs of the entire enterprise.
IN TODAY’S MARKET THERE ARE A MYRIAD OF...
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Uttam Narsu
As commoditization through Web Services looms large, application integration vendors are completing their transformation to...
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Evangelos Simoudis
ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION HAS emerged as a distinct and important layer of the enterprise software infrastructure....
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Technology
Keerti Melkote & Pankaj Manglik
THE BUZZ IS ON. WI-FI NETWORKS ARE mushrooming everywhere to provide high speed wireless access to the Internet not only from...
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Rahul Chandran
EIGHT YEARS OF R&D IN AIRCRAFT technologies finally paid off when a slim, fighter jet took to the skies. But even better,...
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Pradeep Shankar
MOHAMED MUHSIN, VICE PRESIDENT AND the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the World Bank, has the privilege of demonstrating...
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Business
Pradeep Shankar
THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS IN TELE-communications history have seen the bankruptcies of Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing. This...
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Subhash Desai
A YEAR AGO, ICICI WAS JUST ANOTHER BANK, among a pantheon of others in the Indian banking segment. However, one bold move saw...
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Kris Ananthakrishnan
RIGHT NOW ALL IS QUIET, AND AN UNEASY CALM prevails. But make no mistake: this war is far from over. It won’t be long...
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Jagdish Dalal
IF YOGI BERRA WAS ASKED TO INTRODUCE THIS topic, he might say: “Selling outsourcing is 70% delivery and the other 70% is...
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Paul Prabhaker
“The American economy—our economy—is built on confidence. The conviction that our free enterprise system will...
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In My View
Ajay Chopra
ONE OF THE EARLY INVESTORS IN MY COMPANY once noted that, “the half life of a new start-up is measured in days.” I...
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VC Chakra
si Team
Pleasanton, CA based Pronto Networks has secured $5 million in its first round of funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and the...
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si Team
Xora Inc., a provider of mobile solutions for enterprise applications has raised $4 million in Series B funding from SoundView...
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Entrepreneurship
Pradeep Shankar
CRADLE IS TAKING A BOLD STEP IN SEMI-conductor design in it’s approach to transform the chip-design process by using a...
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Karthik Sundaram
KEITH DALE, VP OPERATIONS AT GETTHERE.COM does his annual system capacity analysis every summer. Getthere is the engine on...
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Leadership
si Team
IN 1907, TWO YOUNG German entrepreneurs, chemist Otto Röhm and businessman Otto Haas, established a partnership in Esslingen...
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Letters
si Readers
Going Back Home
Dr. Bobby Mitra’s strong case for India as a strong market for U.S. returnees is a compelling article....
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Personal Finance
si Team
WHO: KUNAL KAPOOR, editor of Morningstar's Morningstar Mutual Funds, a semi-monthly newsletter. Prior to this, he was a mutual...
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Career
Rahul Chandran
FOR A LINGUISTICS STUDENT FROM JAWAHARLAL Nehru University's class of 1975, Ghanshyam Dass, Director South Asia, NASDAQ, has...
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Vickram Swamy
Sivaramakichenane Somasegar began his career at Microsoft on Jan. 23, 1989 as a software design engineer in the OS/2 group. He...
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In Focus
si Team
The NASA’s failed flight on 02-01-2003 lost seven astronauts. Among the seven was Dr. Kalpana Chawla, astronaut.
This...
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si Team
Global financial institutions will pump in $350 billion in the next five years in India for offshore business. Of this, 60...
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A small leftist party in India's communist bastion West Bengal has just hit upon a novel way of registering protest. By...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
I have yet to meet a professional who is happy to lose his/her job. When a leading business daily carries the cover story, "Is...
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Last Word
Kunwar Natwar Singh
Natwar Singh served the prestigious Indian Foreign Service for over three decades and resigned from the service to contest...
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