Picked up this nice line from an interview Business Standard had with KK Swamy - ex head of Toyota Kirloskar Motors.
if cost was the factor, then B&W TV’s would still be around.
Archive for June, 2008
Does this work?
Will you be Hired or Fired?
27th June is Bill Gate’s last day at Microsoft. I think Microsoft is what it is today because of Bill Gate’s vision. He was a visionary and he knew right in the beginning that the PC industry is where growth lies. People blame him for copying other people’s ideas and crushing competitors. Although some of it might be true, ultimately innovation does not matter if it is not brought to the market quicker than others in a form that people can use it(Xerox are you listening?).
I remember the End of an Era Friends episode when Rachael is moving out of Monica’s apartment and it belatedly dawns upon Rachael that she will no longer be living with Monica and share the good times. It’s the same case with Microsoft. Only once Bill leaves will we see if there is any impact of him leaving and how the company is run by Steve’s without Bill’s advice and constant support. Technically Bill is still going to spend around 2 hours a week with the Search and Live teams, so he is still hanging around but it will never be the same again.
…then you might need this resignation letter
Created by Wired.com
We didn’t start the bubble! 
Today’s Mint has an article on the Indian Met department purchasing Doppler weather radars from a Chinese firm. Now these radars are basically and upgraded version of the NEXRAD system being used in the USA. One of the reasons this deal is being touted as a technologically advanced one for India is the fact that this system is being used in the US currently. Coincidentally there is an article on the Slashdot front page today proclaiming that the US is about to replace the very same NEXRAD technology because it is old and deeply flawed in the eyeys of the meteriologists in US.
This again put in the context of the following comment makes the new deal an act of dumping old technology in third world countries!
“While our technical evaluation company is certainly competent, I hope they have not compromised on quality for cost,” says an IMD scientist not connected with the technical evaluation and selection of firms to supply the radars and who didn’t want to be named.
If the scientists themselves don’t trust the technical evaluation with all their knowledge, what do we make out of this purchase?
