October-2003 issue
On The Cover
Author: Karthik Sundaram
Nature does not discriminate,” says Udai Kumar, the co-founder and the CEO of Quinnox, “rather it gives every one of its creations the opportunity and ability to differentiate themselves.” The profound lesson that Udai...
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Cover Feature
Rahul Chandran
U.S. RETURNEES NEED NOT APPLY,” WAS A COMMON REFRAIN in recruitment advertisements placed by many Indian software companies...
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Rahul Chandran
IT IS NINE IN THE MORNING WHEN THE QUALITY Assurance engineer in Neoteris’ swank Hyderabad office runs into a roadblock...
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si Team
The Intel India Development Center (IIDC), located in Bangalore, India, is Intel’s largest non-manufacturing site located...
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Mohan Babu
After spending nearly six years in the U.S., most of it in pristine Colorado, I recently packed my bags and decided to head...
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Technology
Ivan Walsh
SINCE TAKING OVER FROM LOU GERSTNER IN 2002, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has set in motion a set of initiatives that, in plain terms,...
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Inder Singh
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE HAS ACHIEVED unprecedented popularity in recent years, especially with the rapid growth in the use of the...
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Ajmal Noorani
IN THE BATTLE FOR BANDWIDTH ON CONGESTED Wide-Area Network (WAN) links, aggressive applications like music downloads and large...
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Debu Chatterjee
GOOGLE FOR ‘GRID COMPUTING’, AND THE response comes back with 1.45 million hits in about 0.22 seconds. That’s...
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VC Chakra
si Team
The funds will be used to scale operations worldwide as well as for continued product development. This brings the total...
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si Team
Anti-spam solutions provider MailFrontier announced the closing of $10 million in Series B financing led by Menlo Ventures....
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Leadership
Karthik Sundaram
“So when Santa Singh was required to fill in a response for ‘sex’...” chortles Ajit Singh, his penchant...
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Letters
si Readers
China Syndrome
I have read Romi Mahajan’s last two columns in siliconindia, the one about the hubris of Indian IT...
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In My Opinion
Dr. Vinod Agrawal
ONE SIGNIFICANT HALLMARK OF THE AMERICAN DREAM (“pursuit of happiness” as an inalienable right) is to never give up...
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Career
Anja Freudenthal
THE “GREEN CARD” process begins for many through a petitioning family member, or for a select few through the...
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Business
V. Anantakrishnan
IN A JANUARY 2003 SURVEY OF ABOUT 500 IT executives polled by the Ziff Davis publications, almost one in two agreed on one...
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In Focus
si Team
Asok, the brilliant Indian trainee, turns out to be an IIT graduate who has managed an entire project single-handedly even...
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si Team
Among the villages in the former French colony of Pondicherry that are hotspots in the Information Village Project (IVP)...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
“Giant Sucking Sound” is the title of a story in the recent issue of Forbes, the story of EDS sending white-collar...
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Last Word
Romi Mahajan
IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME FOR INDIAN-AMERICAN technocrats to espouse a new politics, that time is now—not a politics of...
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