October-2002 issue
Cover Story
SAMIR THAKORBHAI DESAI LOVES TO TELL stories. “Nobody is making money. Look at our customers. Verizon, Cingular, Voicestream, Vodafone...they are all hurting. So are the vendors. Nortel, Alcatel, Motorola...everybody. This brings to...
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Cover Feature
The current state of the enterprise software industry
We feel that the value-creation from enterprise software has not yet...
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ENTERPRISES HAVE SLASHED BUDGETS THIS YEAR for large application software purchases. A look at purchase intentions and adoption...
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ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE. EARS PRICK UP, don’t they? What is enteprise software? Let us accept the simplest of definitions:...
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WHAT HAS A GAME OF BOWLING GOT TO DO WITH developing software? A lot, if you ask Valdero CEO and co-founder, Satyajeet Singh...
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Career
IT WAS NOVEMBER 2000. THE presidential election was still undecided. And for Anil Kakani, who was working in the White House,...
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Business
WHAT DO PEOPLE DO WHEN THE U.S. economy is in a recession, the markets are headed down, and a crisis of confidence looms large...
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FOR YEARS, INDIA HAS BEEN seen as a doddering behemoth caught at the crossroads between the Nehruvian era of Three-Four percent...
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OCTOBER 2000: THE HEADS OF HDFC (formerly Housing Development and Finance Corporation), India's housing mortgage major, and...
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What does a company do when it discovers the target market upon which it originally planned to build a solid business doesn't...
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Career Advice
K.S. MEENAKSHI WAS A BIT FLUSTERED ON AN August morning. She had about a hundred appointments with SAP and ERP professionals,...
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Technology
THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE LAST century have created new economic paradigms where businesses big and small compete to...
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Entrepreneurship
MOST PEOPLE WHO undergo a successful surgery think that once the procedure is complete, they will have very little to worry...
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WEBVERSA CHIEF technology officer Ajay Sravanapudi has just acquired Semio, in San Mateo, CA. And with this, he expects to pull...
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In My Opinion
INDIA'S DEFENSE FORCES HAVE now been fully deployed on the frontiers in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with the Pakistan...
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Inbox
Errata
Appropos your September 2002 cover story on si100 and the mention of Virtusa Corporation as one of the members of this...
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Leadership
“One bite at a time,” laughs ‘Magus.’ He has breakfasted with Bill Gates. A string of firsts—that continues to...
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Openfile
THE DRUG DISCOVERY industry is poised to become a worldwide colossus in the coming years. In fact, it is hypothesized that most...
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Personal Finance
Under current tax laws, the taxable income of a business entity is computed by deducting “ordinary and necessary” business...
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WHO: ARJUN DIVECHA, based in Berkeley, California, is a member of GMO's board and is responsible for managing the GMO Emerging...
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Editor's Desk
OVER A YEAR HAS PASSED SINCE THE tragedy of September 11, affording us the unique opportunity to introspect. We can begin to...
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Last Word
There have been countless attempts—most visibly, those of Deepak Chopra—to reconcile Indian spirituality with the seemingly...
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