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Comment on R-log reloaded by AJ

AJ — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:28:39 +0000

Hope to see you re-start blogging soon! :)

Comment on Unmaad’04: The Journey Begins… by Kiran Jonnalagadda

Kiran Jonnalagadda — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:15:05 +0000

I will be out of Bangalore for the entire period. *sigh* Guess I’ll have to wait till next year, or till the next event.

Comment on Getting Indian corporates interested in Intranet and Internet Weblogs by RS

RS — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:49:37 +0000

You are welcome. It would be interesting to see how the whole thing works out. Indian companies are very stingy when it comes to implementing something that does not have cash flows in short term. Look at the R&D expenditure of most of the Indian companies (i think on an average it will be less than 1% of their total sales). So your job becomes even more challenging considering all these things. Good luck.

Comment on Getting Indian corporates interested in Intranet and Internet Weblogs by Conversations with Dina

Conversations with Dina — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:05:07 +0000

Turning Ideas into Action (2) – Corporate Blogging
Some neat rap on corporate blogging …

Comment on Getting Indian corporates interested in Intranet and Internet Weblogs by Dina

Dina — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:16:26 +0000

Rajeev – thanks for the share – these are so useful – will incorporate them in the proposal. I loved your after-thoughts too … on meeting customer needs and on ‘usability’ of software.

Comment on Study of narratives by RS

RS — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:42:23 +0000

Sorry, i haven’t read this book.

Comment on Study of narratives by Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:15:08 +0000

I need help writing a study of narrative on the book “Jazz” by Toni Morrison. If anyone has any ideas on going about this, please…let me know!!

Comment on Companies cutting down on phone and email? by AJ

AJ — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:41:33 +0000

yes. telephone is much better mode of commnication than email. Managing emails is a big problem and a drain on productivity. It sucks.

Comment on Economist.com | Investment banks and outsourcing by RS

RS — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 02:11:27 +0000

Yeah I agree with you on that. What will happen is that Indian companies will have to cut their profit margins, which at present are very high or share their profits with the outsourcer. My point of view is that time has not yet come to write-off the outsourcing business model.

Besides the point but I can safely mention here that some of the Indian companies have also started quoting below $10 per hour. Can anyone beat that?

And congratulations to you on getting a summer job.

Comment on Economist.com | Investment banks and outsourcing by Sathish VM

Sathish VM — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 01:46:51 +0000

Hi Rajeev,
The Economist data is correct. We just have to remember that US companies don’t directly pay Indian programmers and do that through the Infosys’ and Wipro’s, which consume a huge amount of the billing as profits, letting percolate only a li’l figure as salary.
As I know, Infosys bills about 25$ for a developer. ML’s and PM’s are charged at $40 or above. Weighted average would result in the economist figure.