Orphanage

On 26th Jan 2006 (Republic day) I went to a missionary of orphan children. It was a nice Experience.

TechVista-07

Me and Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Microsoft Research

Yesterday (Tuesday 23rd Jan 2007) I was in TechVista Conf.

These were the speakers at the conf.

• Prof. Ken Perlin, Media Research Laboratory, Dept. of Computer
  Science, New York University and Academy award winner
• Prof. Mriganka Sur,
  Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, and Head, Dept of Brain and
  Cognitive Science, MIT
• Prof. Jeannette Wing, President's Professor of
  Computer Science, Computer Science Department Head, CMU
• Prof. N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, IISc
• Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Microsoft Research
• Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
  
  
  

Marketing the Operating System as a Product

[Integrating my blogs into one blog: This post is copied from my other blog]

Think about the scenario when Application Software does not require the
Operating System to run upon. Will any one purchase any operating system
for just shake of the viewing the file on his Hard Disk, for listing the
Hardware attached to his computer? In the desktop market no one will
spend even a single penny for software such as the Operating System
which only facilitates the Application software.

Now today Companies like Microsoft, Sun and Apple are fighting for
selling their Operating System in the market. I believe that the
marketing the operating system as a product requires different strategy.
It is not the same as you are selling other software in the market. But
the question is how we should market the Operating system as a product
in the market. Here I am listing some of the parameters that must be
taken care in designing and marketing Operating System.

1.Easy of Installing the Older Applications.
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Yes, I am talking about the backward compatibility of the Operating
System. When anyone is purchasing a new operating system he will look
for the compatibility of his older applications. No one will switch to a
new Operating System if new one is refusing to run the older and
existing Applications.

2.Conducive Development Environment
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The second most important stuff is the Development Environment on new
Operating system. The new Operating System must be able to cope up with
the new technological changes and must have the proper development
environment so that the developer can upgrade their Applications for new
features added in New Operating System. As well as the development of
new Applications must be easy and robust.
3.Non Irritating User Dialogs.
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Will anyone like to see frequent error messages and dialogs in new
operating system? By opinion about operating system is that its
underlying software and it should not communicate to the end user very
frequently. The user communication in New Operating System must be
minimized.

4.Other features
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Other features are obvious but not ignorable like Speed, Boot up Time,
Security, and Look and Feel.

Let's talk about the Microsoft's way of marketing the Operating System.
Microsoft is too rich in bringing the first 2 parameters. I mean the
Microsoft new Operating System is will backward compatible than anyone
in the market. Microsoft is also clever enough to bring the latest API
and development environment in the market. But due to some security
related concern of Microsoft the new OS is not good in avoiding the
Non-Irritating User Dialogs.

Map and Navigation

[Integrating my blogs into one blog: This post is copied from my other blog]

“The Google Earth” is revolutionizing the Navigation Technology. The next era will be of the devices equipped with the GPS and full featured map database which will direct us through the cities. Till now the HP’s iPaq is bringing a basic form of this technology. But I hope this technology will evolve further so that the every car’s wind shield will be a transparent LCD screen where the Driver will see the Map of the City as well as the traffic right in front of him.

Imagine that your car tells you following information

1. How much more time left to reach your destination.
   
2. Till now what was your Avg Speed (from certaing point)
   
3. In Which Direction your Car is going.
   
4. What are the route available for destination and their traffic conditions.
   
5. In Real Time which path is the best path depending upon your preferences (Time/Distance)
   
6. Where is nearest Hotel/Hospital/Shop where i will get this product/service.
   
7. Where is petrol bunk so that i can refuel.
   
8. And so on many things
   

Wipro related news of this week

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Hi friends
One thing is very peculiar about wipro is that its media presence is very bursty. I mean some time a week long you will not get any news about wipro and some times you will get lots of news about wipro. Here is the week where i saw some 3 to 4 news about wipro....
I am posting those news here.

Wipro acquires Quantech Global
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited, on Monday, announced plans to acquire Quantech Global Services in an all cash deal, for an undisclosed amount.
The consideration includes an upfront cash payment on closure of the transaction as well as an earn-out on achieving agreed financial targets over three years, said Chief Operating Officer, Wipro Technologies, D L Rao.
Mr Rao said Quantech is a leading provider of computer aided design (CAD) and engineering services to fortune 500 companies in the automotive, aerospace and consumer goods industries.




Wipro to develop Rs 200 cr campus in Vizag
Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy today laid the foundation stone for a Rs 200 crore Wipro Technologies campus at Vishakhapatnam.Wipro will invest the amount over the next four-five years in its campus, coming up on the seven acre land the Andhra Pradesh government has allotted to the IT major for a nominal cost.The allocation of land is in part of Andhra's bid to promote IT industry in the state.According to A Lakshman Rao, chief operating officer of Wipro, the company initially investment Rs 25 crore, and hire about 750 employees."We have plans to expand our activity by investing about Rs 200 crore over the next four-five years and create 6,000 jobs," he added.


Wipro chief sees rise in Indian R&D
"The U.S. will graduate more sports therapists this year than engineers," Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, said at the Future in Review conference here Monday. "Engineering and medicine are the two most preferred professions in India, by far."

Software services still account for the largest percentage of Wipro's revenue, at about 60 percent, Premji said. But the company has become the world's largest independent provider of research and development services for other companies, and it hopes that the segment will account for 40 percent to 45 percent of Wipro's revenue over the next few years, Premji said in a brief interview following his public discussion with Rafiq Dossani, a senior research scholar at Stanford University.

Wipro, Oracle deploy online surveillance system in BSE
Wipro and Oracle recently implemented phase – I of the BSE’s Online Surveillance System-integrated (BOSS-i). BOSS-i caters to Bombay Stock Exchange’s (BSE) complex market vigilance requirements and promotes market integrity by providing a capturing trading data in Equities & Derivatives market.


Bye for now..... Actually my exams are going on these days......