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Indian portals
call cellular users for profits
Indian portal players have found a new lease of life from
a totally unexpected space—not your traditional Internet subscribers,
but India’s booming cellular base. Thanks to this trend, the
Internet subscriber base is becoming a subset of the mobile
space.
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Global
competition leads to re-focus on people development
How do you select and retain talented people? How
can you create an environment, which helps people thrive
at work?. |
Issue of October 2003
ERP:
Striking it right
The main causes for ERP failure are not technical or
integration issues. The success of ERP depends on how
one handles change, as one's organization migrates from
a legacy system to ERP. by Brian Pereira
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| India News |
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Eclipse Systems
teams up with Jesta, Canada
“EMC’s acquisition
has enhanced our product portfolio”
BMC Software
scales operations
Impetus to
launch commercial software products
CSI event in
December
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| India Trends |
Blade servers:
Less space, more work
Blades save space and add functionality to the new class of
data centres and server farms. Rahul Neel Mani and Gaurav Patra
report on the state of this segment in India |
| Opinion |
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“We want Chennai
to become the ITeS hub of the country”
“The market for
software components will grow”
In search of
business excellence
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Comsat Max
finds growth by adding value
Huge geographical spread, low teledensity and a strong demand
for reliable communication infrastructure have meant that
VSATs are a natural choice in India.
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Past imperfect,
future tense
In an attempt to adapt to the changing economic scenario,
venture capitalists (VCs) have modified investment policies
to make fewer investments, and even there, in late-stage and
profitable companies.
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| Events |
Technology trends
of the future
The CIO is no longer the backroom person processing reports
and handing out bulky reports to management. The role of the
CIO has changed rapidly over the years and today any extra knowledge
about the competition and the market is the key to not only
growth but also survival. |
| Stock File |
Bulls rule the
roost
The markets continued to rise sharply amidst intermediate reactions,
while volumes recorded have been very good. Traders and speculators
were seen building speculative positions in auto and tech stocks
on the back of good quarterly numbers. |
| TechSpace |
Techforum
Distributed queries
Every organisation has data in multiple databases. Very often
we need to perform queries and updates across different databases
of the same or different type.
The C# Column
COM Interoperability
COM components and .NET components are not compatible since
they have different internal architectures. However, there
are tools available in the .NET SDK for generating COM proxies
for .NET components and .NET proxies for COM components.
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