October-2004 issue
Cover Story
Author: Karthik Sundaram
The last time vikram talwar spoke to siliconindia, EXL Services was in the midst of a very exciting phase. The Talwar-Kapoor-Wendt led BPO company was being acquired by Conseco [NYSE:CNO], at a time when BPO was not even a blip on the...
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Feature: Open Source
Venkat Ramana
Paul Gustafson and William Koff, Senior Executives at CSC’s Leading Edge Forum write: Something disruptive is happening when:...
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Dave McCandless
Most people are astonished to discover that my experience as an open source software user dates back 20 years. My first...
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Pradeep Shankar
Ritesh Nadhani is like any other college grad—he loves music, watches Star Trek and is a fan of Football superstar Cristiano...
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Rajesh Setty
#10. You want to move to open source because others are doing it.
Open source is catching up and you don’t want to be left...
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Pradeep Shankar
“What is Linux? And what is GPL?” were some questions that most VCs asked in the mid 90s when entrepreneurs in the open...
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Entrepreneurship
Karthik Sundaram
Finally here is a man who can truly claim to practise what he preaches. Google on “Naveed Sherwani” and it returns about...
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Technology
G.P.Vinay Babu
Sam is a new-age gadget freak who sports an impressive array of consumer devices that makes him quite a star among his friends....
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Ashu Joshi
Storage comes in many flavors from the simple direct attach disk drive in the typical desk top PC to the very large and complex...
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Harish Revanna
Satish Mahajan's favourite quip is that AAA uses a variety of systems under the sun, including Sun! For many who didn’t know...
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Sridhar Jayanthi
Most employees in IT departments of large enterprises are already aware of the term “Zero-Day” by now. The term may not be...
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Business
Pravir Malik
“Amidst the conventional wisdom and common goals of the time, how is it that Bill Gates decided to drop out of college, start...
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VC Chakra
si Team
Disk-based long-term digital data storage providers Copan System has closed its round of financing accumulating $25M in its...
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si Team
Monetizing the revenue potential of data services in the wireless landscape is a key challenge that service providers and...
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In My Opinion
Joe Kraus
If you pitch a venture capitalist for money, be prepared to hear sports analogies. “When are you going to put the puck on the...
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Career
Robin Mathews
INTEL INDIA is playing a key role in technology development and innovation, says Arjun Batra, the Intel India Development...
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In Focus
si Team
Framingham-based high-tech company Bose is jumping on the iPod bandwagon. Bose is launching a single-unit docking station and...
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si Team
Anshu Jain has been named the co-head of investment banking division of Deutsche Bank. At present Jain is the bank’s head of...
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si Team
Mapping India is no more a paper matter. CE Info System has spliced its state of the art technology with one of India’s...
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si Team
Four Indian Americans are among those who received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
“We view technology as a key competitive advantage,” JP Morgan-Chase vice chairman Thomas B. Ketchum announced and...
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Last Word
Romi Mahajan
The stories that one rarely—if at all—hears are the ones that define the epoch in which we live. Of that, there is no...
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