April-2003 issue
Cover Story
Author: Karthik Sundaram
WHEN OUR TECHNICAL TEAM CALLS THE Oracle helpdesk, they know that the situation warrants total, immediate attention,” claims Ravi Kulasekaran, co-founder and CEO of Fremont, CA-based Appshop, probably the largest independent ASP...
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Feature
Pradeep Shankar
ONE SECTOR’S LOSS IS ANOTHER’S GAIN. THE security sector, to be sure, is a “hot” area of investment. The year 2002 saw...
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Nand Mulchandani
AT UNPRECEDENTED SPEED, Internet technology has permanently transformed business processes. The most agile enterprises have...
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A. J. Singh
SECURITY IS A CONCERN FOR EVERY ENTERPRISE, and a known issue to almost all managers. Everyone has heard of hackers...
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Ravi Sandhu & Ravi Ganesan
PRETEND YOU WERE THE CHIEF SECURITY Officer of a Fortune 500 corporation in 1993. What was your threat environment like? You...
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Technology
Atul Bansal
IF U.S. BROADBAND ADOPTION HAD FOLLOWED industry predictions, homes and businesses of all sizes would be equipped with a...
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Anand Chandrasekaran
THE WIRELESS DATA INDUSTRY, LIKE MOST emerging industries, has been plagued by hype and unfulfilled expectation. As is the case...
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Pradeep Shankar
WITH MORE THAN A THIRD OF ALL CARS produced in North America using its electronics products, Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) has...
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VC Chakra
si Team
TODAY, THE VCS ARE BEING A LOT MORE thorough in their due diligence. This includes getting confirmation from our customers that...
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si Team
WHEN WE BEGAN THE funding process in December, we weren't certain what the climate would be like. Luckily, we had a number of...
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Business
Pradeep Shankar
RUNNING A MINI-EMPIRE OF HOTELS WASN'T anywhere on Hasu Shah’s list of aspirations. Growing up in Mumbai, he studied to...
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Paul Prabhaker
THERE IS CONSIDERABLE BUZZ NOWADAYS about sustainable business performance. It is frequently held up as the Holy Grail of...
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Jagdish Dalal
SPORTS FANS KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT score the winning run if you don't get a chance to bat. It is the same in responding to the...
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Karthik Sundaram
AN OFFICE EXECUTIVE SPENDS MORE THAN 4 hours checking, reading, and replying to emails. Out of the 4 hours, he or she spends...
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Entrepreneurship
Pradeep Shankar
RUNNING A MINI-EMPIRE OF HOTELS WASN'T anywhere on Hasu Shah’s list of aspirations. Growing up in Mumbai, he studied to...
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Paul Prabhaker
THERE IS CONSIDERABLE BUZZ NOWADAYS about sustainable business performance. It is frequently held up as the Holy Grail of...
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Jagdish Dalal
SPORTS FANS KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT score the winning run if you don't get a chance to bat. It is the same in responding to the...
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Karthik Sundaram
AN OFFICE EXECUTIVE SPENDS MORE THAN 4 hours checking, reading, and replying to emails. Out of the 4 hours, he or she spends...
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Career
Liz Ryan
IN THE TOUGH ECONOMIC CLIMATE ALL OVER, it’s easy to forget a segment of the population that’s been especially...
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Venkat Ramana
MY FATHER WAS VERY KEEN THAT I LEAVE THE house,” laughs Atul Minocha, Chief Marketing Officer at Kodak’s health...
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In My Opinion
Naren Gupta
JUST THIS WEEK, APPLIED MATERIALS announced an additional lay-off of 2000 employees. Over the last few months, Brobeck, a...
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Leadership
Venkat Ramana
LOOK AT OUR LOGO,” INVITES THIS QUIET-SPOKEN Ramalinga Raju, Chairman of Satyam Computers Limited. “ The fractels...
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Letters
si Readers
Chopra’s Point Relevant
Ajay Chopra’s introspective essay on the need to reinvent one’s company was very...
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Personal Finance
si Team
WHO: ANURADHA (ANU) SAHAI is Vice President and a Portfolio Manager on the ING Convertible Fund and ING VP Convertible...
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si Team
Brocade's New Weave
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS, ONCE A LEADER in the network storage industry, is today under pressure to...
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In Focus
si Team
Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sanjiv Sidhu of i2 Technologies are no longer billionaires, according to...
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si Team
AT THIS YEAR'S NASSCOM 2003, CEOs NOT only deliberated on issues, but also managed a debut on the catwalk. CEOs from top...
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si Team
FOR LONG, INDIANS HAVE WIELDED tremendous clout in technology and professional circles in the U.S. But politics was one area...
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si Team
IN A RESOUNDING VOTE OF CONFIDENCE TO its Indian subsidiary, the Coca Cola Company has awarded the Robert W. Woodruff...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
AS A BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY magazine, we don't normally address politics or international relations, but as I write this...
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Last Word
Anu Aga
Whenever India has witnessed communal disturbances, be it against the Sikhs in Delhi or the Muslims in Gujarat, most corporate...
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