MCA Memories

Orientation : 08th of August, 2006.

Wo humari Orientation ka din,

Laga ki ye kaha aagaye hai hum.

Sab lage the hume patane,

hume kya pata tha ye hume yaha par laaye hai fasane.

Jaane kitne kiye the waade sabne us din,

Gundu, TPO, MCA faculty , par hume kya tha maalum ki ye yaha ke hai mehmaan sirf kuch din.

Chalo raat gayi so baat gayi, fir nayi subah aaegi

naye naye rang laaegi, hum sab naachenge, hilenge dulenge aur geet gaaenge.

Ragging Days :

Aaya College jaane ka pehla din,fir wahi attendance,

fir wahi guru ji ki chick chick baaji.

Sab teacher kehte, lecture to attend karlo praji.

Par ghus aaye us din humari class main kuch seniors log,

tha unpar ragging karne ka rog.

Bana diya tha ladko aur ladkiyo ko majnu laila,

Humne bhi kaha ragging ke mamle main hai ye batch thakela.

Fir aayi raaging dene ki humari baari,

Saare senior bole, maibaap hume chod do, badle main lelo aap ragging hamari.

Din guzre, weekend guzre, hum sab lage the doston ki talaash main,

koi group banaenge, saath main chinese khaane jaaenge.

Our Freshers Party : Ye humne li hai

Saare seniors ne daaru chadhayi thi ek din,wo thi humari freshers welcome,

par mind you hum us time sharif the ek dum.

Hue the drame bahut us din,

fashion show and truth or dare,

par hum sab main tha itna flare ki chipka diye humne do teen baasi aur purane sher.

Khub saara khana dekhkar aaya tha mere face par 44,000 Volt ka Glow

But mind bole, dude do not diversiy from the flow.

Mil gaya Madam Garima aur Sir Prerit ko us din mr aur miss fresher ka khitab,

Fir jo hui shuru ek nayi kahani, main kya bataaauuuu, khud hi sun lo garima se janab.

Us din Hone lagi thi beech floor par ladai,

shukar hai humne naan khakar chup chaap dum dabai.

Padhai aur musibato ke din :

Pahuche hum college ek baarish ke din, dekha hamare super seniors baithe hai dharne par,

MCA dept. bola Strike Strike, **** Murdabad, **** Hai Hai, Hume laga ki we should also join them.

Lagi satane hume placements ki tension, sab kehne lage "arrey yaar humare time main aate aate sab theek ho jaana hai".

Roz ke wahi lafde, roz wahi mass bunk,

roz canteen main gundi apne BF ko bole "Get Lost, You Punk".

Roz wahi chatni aur samose, chowmein, thumbsup, rajma chawal, in short canteen ki daawat,

hume kya pata tha ki aane waali hai hamari shamat.

teachers ka juniors ko dhamki dena its your choice, what you want to pick.

Par hum thehre over optimistic hume kya pata tha, ki hamara college believes in spoil the child and spare the stick.

Khair din guzre weekend guzre hamare doston ki talash hui over, dost bane bichade, group chute, group bane,

nahi bana tha ek gang, bana dala humne sirf chand lamho main ek aisa jod, kisi ke baap ko bhi le aao, koi nahi paega ise tod.

"Us jod ka naam tha V8."

Little about our beloved teachers :

Maine socha, sab masti majak ho raha hai is poem main,

kuch to likha jaae teachers ke samman main.

Jub teachers ka naam aata hai dimaag ke andar,

They humare 1st year main do pyare pyare bandar,

Ek bichara tha thoda kala(gundappa swami) aur ek tha SONY HIFI System ka Woofer(Garg Sir).

Gundu swami tha hamara Department ka Head.

Jub shuru hota tha uska boring lecture,

All I would want is one sweet warm bed.

Kehta tha hume ki aap apni knowledge badaiye,

Bahane bahane se Khelta tha hamare saath game "Aap Aaiye".

Hume wo bulata tha bhin bhin naamo se, kabhi gupta ji, kabhi srivastav ji,

HUme kya pata tha ki ek din hume unhe bolna padega, tussi jaa rahe ho ji.

Woofer sir ke baare main kya bolu,

Unki main kya kya polen kholu.

Kitna khoon badhaya hai unho ne hamara,

Jub karte the wo jumping jack ka ishara.

Karte the wo hmmmmmm-hmmmmmm

To hamara dil bole boom boom.

Oye Woofer we are going to miss you.

Exams ke din :

Aaye humare exams, lagne lage hum karne group study,

Bus ek dusre ko bolte firte the, oye kuch to pada de buddy.

Kabhi kiske kabhi kiske ghar par,

wo kitaabo ka bistar,

wo notes ki chaadar,

wo photocopy ki ladai,

in sab ke beech main kaun kisko pada paaega mere bhai.

Group study karne ke bahane jaana kabhi kisi ke ghar,

wo raatein,

wo padte padte chale jaana light ka,

wo masti maza deepak kumar srivastav ki fight ka(yaad hai deepak).

wo sharing basis par ek bistar,

ulta na socho yaar ye hai exam fever.

Arrival of New Batch & New Problems :

Aaya naya batch hamare college main, hume laga ki bichare hai kitne masuum,

Fir wahi waade, fir wahi naate, hume maalum tha orientation ke baad hum kholenge pol boom boom.

Freshers party : Humne Di thi

Badi ladai aur jhagde ke baad, hui Juniors ki freshers welcome.

Fir wahi naachna, fir wahi gaana,

wo deepak kumar srivastav ka beedi jalaile par nachna.

Wo hamari decoration, wo hamara arrangement.

Wo Puneet, garima aur pulkit ka spontaneous encouragement.

Wo Aneja sir ka bhangra paana,

wo gaurav sir ka twist lagana.

Wo Miheer pansare ka surprise dance,

mujhe bhi mila mic par bolne ka ek chance.

Wo goofy ka matakna,

Wo meggi bui ka chick chick marna.

Wo Pallavi ka hamesha mobile chupana.(sabko maalum hai kyu)

Us din bhi laga tha mujhe 44,000 Volt ka jhatka,

Fir dimaag bola, eee maaru kya ek fatka.

Tha wo din bada yaadgaar,

Fir aaega wahi din aur wahi bahar.

Nayi nayi museebat aati thi hamare sar par,

Kabhi TPO to kabhi teacher bhaag jaate the college chod kar.

Hum karte the director se fiddle,

kyunki Reh jaata tha Hamara course in middle.

Aati thi hum par books aur notes ki baad,

Par hamare paas tha har cheez ka jugaad.

Lagate important questions ka guess,

all this usually landed us in a big mess.

Aate the bahar exam center se,

Karte the poora paper par bolte the "main to fail, main to fail",

Result aane par pata lagta tha kaun hai sachin tendulkar aur kaun david gayle.

Vaise hote the hum sab pass,

fir bhi rehti thi numberon ki aas.

Ladte the teachron se, bolte the do hume 30ees main se 32tis,

teacher hote the hamare lallu, de dete the hume 30 main se 35tis.

Wo teacheron se har baat par ladna,

wo Director ka hum par chadna.

Aneja sir ka tha hum par haath,

laga rakhi thi humne poore college ki waat.

Khatam hui ye 2nd year ki story,

On a bad note but a little glory.

3rd Year :

Hua start hamara 3rd year,

hota tha hume placements ka fear.

Hone lagi v8 main kaafi ladai,

par dil bola ek din sab theek hoga mere bhai.

Hua ek din sab fine.

saari birthdates nikli prime(sochna mat, yaha aur koi line fit nahi ho rahi thi)

Jugaad lagakar ban gaya hamara ek trip,

kar diya humne apni saari tensions ko skip.

Wo raste ke singhare,

wo jain ke pakore,

wo haridwar ki ganga,

Mind it, dont take panga.(fir mat sochna)

Bhagte daudte pahuche hum rishikesh,

aisa laga ki duniya is in another vesh.

Wo choti waale ka khana,

aur tissue paper paani ki tarah bahana.

Wo bonfire ka mazaa,

Wo navratron main khud ko kosna,

Wo garam garam khana remo ke haatho se parosna.

Wo raat ka andhera aur sannata,

Shukar hai deepak harkato ki wajah se pada nahi use chaata.

Wo mausum ki garmi,

Wo ret ki narmi,

Wo paani ki thandak,

Mann kar raha tha ki jaae hum wahi atak.

Wo trekking ki masti,

Wo rafting ka darr,

Wo Ganga se panga,

Wo vapsi ki mayusi,

But in all this we enjoyed sayin 'resam kiri, resam kiri'.

Aaye hum ghar,

dekhe humne videos,

dekhi humne photoyen,

Lag raha tha ki kab aaenge wapas ye pal, kal ya parso.

Phir wahi padhai, fir wahi tension

nahi mili thi naukri, bhaag gayi thi chokri,

In sab ke beech main market ho gayi thi fukri.

Fir kya, hua hamara ye safar khatam,

aur alag hue hum.

Par milte rahenge yaaran,

Believe in Happy ending and 10 baharan.

123 Go!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nuclear Agreement between India - USA :MUST READ BY EVERY INDIAN

There are lot of talks about 1 2 3 Agreement between India & USA and it almost led to the topple of Central Government. This text explains the commercial & technical aspects relating to this Agreement which I have read and sharing with you.

What is 123 Agreement?

This is called 123 Agreement because this comes under USA's Atomic Power Act Section 123. Let's see how India's (Indians?) Sovereinty & Independence are
pledged...

(1) After this Agreement USA will supply all fuel, machinery / equipment & technology to India for producing Nuclear Power.

(2) All these days from about 22 Nuclear Power Plants, India is producing power as well as Atom. It's a high security / secret that from where which is produced,
how much is produced, where it is supplied, what research is being done with that, etc. to anybody. But if we sign this Agreement, we have to disclose these secrets and also
agree to 14 of our Nuclear Power Plants to be under the scanner of International Atomic Power Organisation.

(3) The fuel utilised to produce Atomic Power can be recycled for reuse and this plant will be under direct supervision of IAPO.

If India does nuclear test, this agreement gets cancelled. But (1) USA will take back all the machinery / equipments / technology supplied to India thus far.

(2) Those 14 plants will continue to be under scanner irrespective of the status of the agreement.

On the other hand, if any of the commitments given by USA is breached by them, then there is no clause for cancelling this agreement.

The agreement is apparently like this... USA can either hug India or slap India. India will not ask why are we hugged or why are we slapped.

On the other hand, India cannot hug or slap USA for breach of agreement.

This is only capsule so that easy to read and digest.

Subject: India Pledged.... Part 2

Requirement of Power

The most important requirement for India's Economic Growth in the coming years will be the power & infrastructure. The argument put forth favouring the 123 Agreement says
that we need Nuclear Power Production to be increased to meet the demand.

Power Production in India

Presently following are the figures:

Thermal Power 66%

Hydel Power 26%

Solar & Wind Power 5% - Presently Rs.600 Crores are spent for producing this power.

Nuclear Power 3% - If this is to be increased to 6%, it requires additional Rs.50,000 Crores.

Naturally it will be wise to increase other 3 modes of power production rather than the expensive & dangerous Nuclear Power. Isn't??

URANIUM

We used to import Uranium from various other countries. After the Pokran Test, we are not getting it. To augment the supply, we need to sign the 123 Agreement
to get Uranium from USA. But we will have to declare to USA from which power plant India takes raw material for producing Atom Bomb. Why should we disclose
our internal secrets to those rascals ? Will any one allow an outsider to continuously monitor what's happening in your Hall & Kitchen of your house? Other study
reveals that Uranium is available in India aplenty. Only hurdle is the acquisition of land. To produce Atomic Power & Bomb in the next 40 years, the requirement of
Uranium is 25,000 MT whereas the availability is 78,000 MT across India.

PLUTONIUM

Presently 35% of Plutonium is used to produce Atomic Bombs. After signing the Agreement, we will be allowed to use only 10%. Who are those rascals to restrict the
usage of our natural resource ? That is though you are capable of cooking & eating 10 idlis as your breakfast, you are allowed only 3 idlis henceforth. How can it be?
Why should we accept this?

THORIUM

As told by Dr.APJ, we have abundant Thorium. In fact we are the 2nd largest producer of Thorium next only to Australia. India has to explore this further for producing power.
For your information, in South India - particularly around Kanyakumari, the availability of Thorium is abundant.

INDIA-IRAN-CHINA

USA does not like the amicable relationship between India-Iran and also India-China. If India-China relationship gets stronger, then both these can rule the Eastern Part of the
Globe which USA wants to break as per their divide & rule.

By signing this agreement, USA wants India to depend on it for producing power which is going to be a crucial factor in future. There is a talk of bringing Natural Gas from Iran to
India with a big pipeline project. USA doesn't like this proposal.

Atomic Power Technology

Whether power is produced or Bomb is produced, using Atomic power without spoiling the infrastructure and without allowing the radiation is always under threat. Moreover
preserving the wastes coming out of Atomic Power Plants is expensive & unsafe.

There was an accident in Three Miles Island in USA. To close this plant nearly USD 200 Crores spent with tons & tons of concrete but yet to be fully closed.

In an another accident at Soviet Union's Serbia Plant, even the next generation child are affected due to the radiation.

It will be very very expensive to defuse & close down an Atomic Power Plant than its construction cost.

France

France has got 56 Nuclear Power stations producing 73% of the country's total power requirement. They are catching up the problem of eliminating the wastes / emissions from out
of those plants at the same time increase the power production capacity. Government of France is now thinking how to reduce the power consumption in the country.

Conclusion

In view of the above danger, rather than signing the agreement and pledging India to USA, it will be prudent to increase the Solar & Wind Energy and more importantly Hyder Power
Production can be increased by linking all rivers across India and by constructing DAMS. (Ofcourse Dam construction projects can be given to L&T's B&F Sector:-)

The whole process of this Agreement started in the year 2005 when Manmohan visited USA. In a span of just 2 years a major decision of signing this agreement has taken place with
political motive. On the contrary, neither this Government nor any other earlier Central Government could not amend the Constitution thereby nationalise the rivers across the country
thereby effectively utilise the water resources for both Agriculture purpose and producing Hydel Power. What an irony?

Whenever someone is helping the needy, you can't expect the TERMS AND CONDITIONS BETWEEN THE needy and the helper to be EQUAL??? BUT

(1) the helper's ulterior motive should be seen with broad eye because he is capable of digging a grave behind you and

(2) better to be self-sufficient and explore new avenues with available resources.

INDIA-CHINA-USA

India is very rich in Culture, follow Religions, Value Ethics, Level of Education is Very Good.

China is also rich in Culture, follow Religion, better disciplined.

USA does not have Culture, does not have Ethics, only want power over others. Particularly wants a firm footing in South Asia. Remember the introduction EURO by European
Countries and it is stronger than Dollar? So their "DAL" cannot be boiled at "EUROPE". They are trying in India as already Pakistan is in their clutches.

Gates NAMA

What We'll Miss About Bill Gates — a Very Long Good-Bye
By Katharine Gammon 05.19.08 
 
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Bill Gates, we'll miss you. Not just because you're the ultimate geek-villain-pioneer-entrepreneur-monopolist. But because you've always been there for us. To love. To hate. To envy. To pick on. So this month, your last as a full-time Microsoft employee, we realized it was only right and proper to look back on your storied career. (Or we just love your mug shot from the Albuquerque arrest.)


1950s
October 28, 1955 
William Henry Gates III is born in Seattle. His grandmother Adelle nicknames him "Trey," the cardplayer's term for a three. He later becomes an avid poker player.


1960s 

1967 
Gates, a difficult sixth grader, asks his mother, "Have you ever tried thinking?" 

Fall 1967 
Gates' parents enroll him in Lakeside School, an exclusive boys school in Seattle. He is the smallest kid in the class, yet has size 13 feet. 

1968 
Gates and Lakeside classmate Paul Allen learn Basic from a manual. Within a few weeks, the pair exhaust the school's $3,000 annual budget for time on a PDP-10 computer. The boys soon land a contract with the Computer Center Corporation to report PDP-10 software bugs in exchange for computer time. 



1970s 

1971 
Gates writes programs for Lakeside, including one that creates class schedules; he manages to put himself in classes with the "right" girls. 

September 1973 
Gates enrolls at Harvard University. Academically, his record is spotty — having a near-photographic memory helps him cram, but he often misses class, neglecting showers and living on pizza and soda while programming and playing poker. He befriends Steve Ballmer, who lives down the hall in the same dormitory. 

January 1975 
Paul Allen sees the cover of Popular Electronics — a picture of the Altair 8800 computer and the headline "World's First Minicomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models". He buys the issue and rushes to Gates' room. A few days later, Gates calls MITS, maker of the Altair, and tells the company he and Allen could develop a version of Basic for the 8800. 

February 1, 1975 
Gates and Allen finish the code and sell it to MITS for $3,000 plus a percentage of royalties up to $180,000. 


November 26, 1976 
Gates and Allen register the trade name Microsoft. They had considered the name Allen & Gates Inc., then Micro-Soft, but decided to drop the hyphen. Allen is 23, Gates 21. 

January 1977 
Gates takes a leave of absence from Harvard and establishes Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where MITS is headquartered. 


1977 
On several occasions, Gates' secretary enters the Microsoft building to find him crumpled on the floor, asleep. He continues to live on pizza and is a demanding boss, often fighting with colleagues. Among his favorite responses: "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." 

Late 1977 
Gates is arrested several times for speeding in his Porsche 911 — once sans driver's license. Allen bails him out on at least one occasion. 


December 1978 
Microsoft's year-end sales exceed $1 million. 

January 1, 1979 
Microsoft moves its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington. 



1980s 

August 28, 1980 
Gates signs a contract with IBM, agreeing to develop software for the PC. Later he buys an operating system called QDOS for $50,000, improves it, renames it DOS, and licenses it to IBM. 

August 12, 1981 
IBM starts shipping the personal computer with MS-DOS 1.0. 


1982 
In its first year on the market, MS-DOS is licensed to 50 hardware manufacturers. 

February 18, 1983 
Paul Allen resigns as Microsoft's executive vice president during a bout with Hodgkin's disease. He goes on to buy a basketball team, found a music museum, and own the third-largest yacht in the world. 

November 10, 1983 
Windows debuts. The product is an extension of MS-DOS that provides a graphical user interface. 


January 24, 1984 
Gates attends an event to introduce the Macintosh — MS is one of the first software developers for Apple's machine. 

1985 
Gates reportedly abuses a female executive so badly that she asks to be transferred. 1 

August 12, 1985 
After 10 years, Microsoft sales reach $140 million. 


March 13, 1986 
Microsoft goes public at $21 per share. MSFT ends the day at $28, raising $61 million for the company. 

1987 
Gates meets Melinda French at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan. 

August 1, 1989 
Microsoft Office debuts. 




1990s 

May 13, 1990 
Gates schedules a retreat for Microsoft company executives — on Mother's Day. 

June 1990 
The Federal Trade Commission launches a probe into possible collusion between Microsoft and IBM in the PC software market. 

April 11, 1993 
On a chartered flight from Florida to Seattle, Gates proposes to Melinda. He has the plane make a stop in Omaha so the couple can go ring shopping with Warren Buffett. 


August 20, 1993 
The Justice Department takes over the Microsoft investigation from the FTC. 

January 1, 1994 
Bill and Melinda are married in a small ceremony on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. As a surprise, Gates hires Willie Nelson — one of Melinda's favorite singers — to perform. 

April 1994 
The good news? Gates scores his first Wired cover story. The bad? It's about the government's antitrust case against Microsoft. 


July 1994 
Microsoft agrees to a federal consent decree, pledging to abandon particularly egregious anticompetitive business practices (such as requiring hardware manufacturers to pay for MS-DOS for every machine they produce with a particular microprocessor, even if the operating system isn't on it). 



November 11, 1994 
Gates buys da Vinci's Codex Hammer — a 72-page collection of scientific writings — for $30.8 million. He agrees to put the Codex on public display. 

1995 
Gates appears in a commercial for Coke (he's reportedly a Diet Coke fan): The billionaire searches his pockets for change to buy a drink. 

July 17, 1995 
Gates becomes the richest man in the world at 39, with a fortune of $12.9 billion. Microsoft's revenue for 1995 is $5.9 billion; the company has 17,801 employees. 

August 24, 1995 
Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer. 


June 1996 
Wired puts Gates on its cover for the second time, this time with a Photoshopped picture of the geek-mogul in a bathing suit. How else do you depict Microsoft's entry into the media business? 

December 1996 
Microsoft stock hits a high — up 88 percent from the previous December. On paper, Gates made $30 million per day that year. 


October 20, 1997 
Microsoft is slapped with a $1 million-a-day fine for allegedly violating the 1994 consent decree. The Justice Department accuses the company of breaking the agreement by requiring manufacturers to add Internet Explorer to their hardware products if they want a Windows 95 license. 


February 4, 1998 
Gates is hit in the face with a cream pie while walking to meet with Belgian government officials and businessmen. He responds by saying the pie just wasn't that tasty. 

May 18, 1998 
The Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general sue Microsoft for violating the consent decree by bundling a Web browser into its OS. 


November 9, 1998 
In a videotaped deposition, Gates gently rocks as he testifies that he never intended to keep other companies out of the software business. Armchair doctors speculate that he has Asperger's syndrome. 

1999 
Gates and his wife rename the William H. Gates foundation the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and set out to reduce inequities around the world. 



2000s 

January 13, 2000 
Gates steps down as Microsoft's CEO to become chief software architect, handing over the reins to Steve Ballmer. 

June 7, 2000 US federal district judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders that Microsoft be split in two. 

November 2000 
Gates scores another Wired cover, this one for the untold story of the Microsoft antitrust case. 

June 28, 2001 
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturns Jackson's decision. 


2002 
According to a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China, Gates is more idolized than Chinese Communist icon Mao Tse-tung. 

March 2, 2005 
Gates receives an honorary knighthood at Buckingham Palace, joining the ranks of Rudy Giuliani and Steven Spielberg and entitling him to put the letters "KBE" after his name. 

September 14, 2005 
Gates makes a Napoleon Dynamite spoof video for a software developers conference. In it, he goes back to college and wears a shirt that reads "Vote for Steveo". 

December 2005 
Bill and Melinda Gates join Bono as Time's Persons of the Year. 

June 15, 2006 
Gates announces his retirement from day-to-day activities at Microsoft, his role to be phased out over the course of two years. 

June 26, 2006 
With the addition of over $30 billion from Buffett, the Gates Foundation doubles in size to become the largest transparently operated charitable organization in the world. 


March 2008 
After 13 years atop Forbes' list of the world's richest, Gates slips to the third position with a mere $58 billion. His old card-playing buddy Buffett replaces him at number one. Poor, poor Bill.

10 trends that will tranform IT over the next five years

Date: February 18th, 2008
Author: Jason Hiner

Gartner pours out a lot of opinions and predictions. While I regularly disagree with many of those opinions, I believe that Gartner is one of the best analyst firms in the business at organizing and clearly articulating their views. A recent example of that is Gartner’s list of its top 10 IT predictions for the next three to five years.
Gartner released the list on January 31 and stated, “The full impact of these trends may not appear this year, but executives need to act now so that they can exploit the trends for their competitive advantage.”
The list was compiled from over 100 predictions that Gartner made over the past year and then narrowed down and summarized into this list of 10 trends for IT departments to watch. Here’s a quick summary of the 10 along with my take on each one.

1. Mac will double its market share
Gartner says: “By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in computers. Apple’s gains in computer market share reflect as much on the failures of the rest of the industry as on Apple’s success. Apple is challenging its competitors with software integration that provides ease of use and flexibility; continuous and more frequent innovation in hardware and software; and an ecosystem that focuses on interoperability across multiple devices (such as iPod and iMac cross-selling).”
My take: For Mac, doubling its market share would still not put it anywhere near equal footing with Windows. However, Mac sales finished strongly in 2007 to up its market share to 7.3%, so doubling its share to 15% would certainly make it more viable than ever as a Windows alternative and niche OS. I recently heard about a large U.S. company that has increased the number of Macs on its network from about 200 to 2,000 in the last couple years.
I’ve also seen a lot of the IT pros that I know become much more open to deploying Macs, and several of these IT pros have even adopted Macs as their primary machines, because of its versatility to run Mac apps and Windows apps (with Bootcamp, Parallels, or VMware Fusion), and even handle some Linux/UNIX apps using the BSD underpinnings of OS X. So all of that is a long way of saying that I can get board with Gartner’s aggressive prediction for Mac growth.

2. Half of business travelers won’t take their laptops
Gartner says: “By 2012, 50 per cent of traveling workers will leave their notebooks at home in favour of other devices. Even though notebooks continue to shrink in size and weight, traveling workers lament the weight and inconvenience of carrying them on their trips. Vendors are developing solutions to address these concerns: new classes of Internet-centric pocketable devices at the sub-$400 level; and server and Web-based applications that can be accessed from anywhere. There is also a new class of applications: portable personality that encapsulates a user’s preferred work environment, enabling the user to recreate that environment across multiple locations or systems.”
My take: This prediction may seem a little radical - especially since I don’t actually know any business travelers or IT professionals who currently travel without their laptops - but I think Gartner is ultimately on the right track here. Last month, I wrote about the three gadgets that helped me survive CES 2008 and one of them was the OQO, an Ultra Mobile PC that I used for note taking and quick Web access. I can see the potential of this device to replace a laptop, especially if there were wireless docking stations for these types of devices in hotels and public kiosks. However, an even greater factor for making this prediction pan out is the portability of applications and user data across devices, operating systems, and screen sizes.

3. Open source will penetrate 80% of enterprise software
Gartner says: “By 2012, 80 per cent of all commercial software will include elements of open source technology. Many open source technologies are mature, stable and well supported. They provide significant opportunities for vendors and users to lower their total cost of ownership and increase returns on investment. Ignoring this will put companies at a serious competitive disadvantage. Embedded open source strategies will become the minimal level of investment that most large software vendors will find necessary to maintain competitive advantages during the next five years.”
My take: I’m puzzled about what Gartner is trying to say here. Are they saying open source components and code snippets will eke their way into the development of major software applications? If so, I’d say, “So what?” That’s been happening for years and will continue. It’s not really an issue of some companies jumping on that bandwagon and others consciously avoiding it, so I don’t think there are any opportunities for competitive advantage here.

4. A third of all software purchased will be by subscription
Gartner says: “By 2012, at least one-third of business application software spending will be as service subscription instead of as product license. With software as service (SaaS), the user organization pays for software services in proportion to use. This is fundamentally different from the fixed-price perpetual license of the traditional on-premises technology. Endorsed and promoted by all leading business applications vendors (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft) and many Web technology leaders (Google, Amazon), the SaaS model of deployment and distribution of software services will enjoy steady growth in mainstream use during the next five years.”
My take: To be honest, 33% maybe actually be a little low, at least for new sales on the enterprise side. I think more and more vendors are going to want to deliver software via subscription contracts that guarantee recurring revenue while businesses want to minimize handing out big chunks of cash for upgrades. Those two forces are simultaneously moving the two sides toward the subscription model, for financial reasons. In terms of technology, SaaS delivers the portability of apps across multiple platforms, and the demand for that will certainly intensify over the next five years.

5. Many new businesses will buy IT infrastructure as a service
Gartner says: “By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure as a service. Increased high-speed bandwidth makes it practical to locate infrastructure at other sites and still receive the same response times. Enterprises believe that as service oriented architecture (SOA) becomes common “cloud computing” will take off, thus untying applications from specific infrastructure. This trend to accepting commodity infrastructure could end the traditional “lock-in” with a single supplier and lower the costs of switching suppliers. It means that IT buyers should strengthen their purchasing and sourcing departments to evaluate offerings. They will have to develop and use new criteria for evaluation and selection and phase out traditional criteria.”
My take: I like to call this phenomenon “Datacenter-as-a-Service” (DaaS) and I strongly believe that we are in the midst of a major shift to this model. Big service companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Verizon Business already allow you to essentially outsource your datacenter to them. With scale, these companies can provide a level of redundancy and management that are unattainable for small and medium businesses to do on their own at the same price. For large companies they can offer the opportunity to outsource (locally) a service that is not a core competency.

6. Power efficiency will become a key criteria in IT purchases
Gartner says: “By 2009, more than one third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods. Initially, the motivation will come from the wish to contain costs. Enterprise data centers are struggling to keep pace with the increasing power requirements of their infrastructures. And there is substantial potential to improve the environmental footprint, throughout the life cycle, of all IT products and services without any significant trade-offs in price or performance. In future, IT organizations will shift their focus from the power efficiency of products to asking service providers about their measures to improve energy efficiency.”
My take: It’s becoming very expensive to waste power and even to simply not be as power-efficient as you possibly can. There’s also a growing stigma — especially on the U.S. West Coast - against being a power-waster. Over the next several years, I fully expect IT departments to do their due diligence to unearth best practices in managing a power-efficient datacenter and to use that information when purchasing future products.

7. CO2 footprint will become part of PC purchasing criteria
Gartner says: “By 2010, 75 per cent of organizations will use full life cycle energy and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria. Most technology providers have little or no knowledge of the full life cycle energy and CO2 footprint of their products. Some technology providers have started the process of life cycle assessments, or at least were asking key suppliers about carbon and energy use in 2007 and will continue in 2008. Most others using such information to differentiate their products will start in 2009 and by 2010 enterprises will be able to start using the information as a basis for purchasing decisions. Most others will stat some level of more detailed life cycle assessment in 2008.”
My take: In the spectrum of Green IT issues, CO2 footprint is not nearly as easy to measure and define or to equate with business benefits the way you can with power savings. Thus, I don’t think CO2 will have a major impact on IT purchasing until governments set standards and pass laws to make it an issue.

8. Green sourcing will drive vendors to provide green credentials
Gartner says: “By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status. Those organizations with strong brands are helping to forge the first wave of green sourcing policies and initiatives. These policies go well beyond minimizing direct carbon emissions or requiring suppliers to comply with local environmental regulations. For example, Timberland has launched a “Green Index” environmental rating for its shoes and boots. Home Depot is working on evaluation and audit criteria for assessing supplier submissions for its new EcoOptions product line.”
My take: There’s no doubt that “green sourcing” is going to become big business over the next few years, and vendors are going to compete with each other to market their “green-ness.” As such, it’s going to be important to have some common criteria in order to adequately judge how “green” a product or supplier really is.

9. End user preferences will drive half of all IT purchases
Gartner says: “By 2010, end-user preferences will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and services acquisitions made by IT. The rise of the Internet and the ubiquity of the browser interface have made computing approachable and individuals are now making decisions about technology for personal and business use. Because of this, IT organizations are addressing user concerns through planning for a global class of computing that incorporates user decisions in risk analysis and innovation of business strategy.”
My take: This trend has its roots in the long-running tug-of-war between business users and IT professionals. I wrote about this phenomenon in “Sanity check: Did The Wall Street Journal sabotage businesses by publishing tips on how to circumvent IT?” The bigger issue is the fact that many consumers are now bringing technology into the workplace to help them do their jobs and they are managing the process themselves instead of going through the IT department because IT is traditionally very inflexible and not very service-oriented.

10. 3D printers will grow 100-fold
Gartner says: “Through 2011, the number of 3D printers in homes and businesses will grow 100-fold over 2006 levels. The technology lets users send a file of a 3D design to a printer-like device that will carve the design out of a block of resin. A manufacturer can make scale models of new product designs without the expense of model makers. Or consumers can have models of the avatars they use online. Ultimately, manufacturers can consider making some components on demand without having an inventory of replacement parts. Printers priced less than $10,000 have been announced for 2008, opening up the personal and hobbyist markets.”
My take: Where did this one come from? And what does it have to do with business technology? I’m puzzled as to why Gartner put 3D printers on this list. The idea here is pretty cool, but with the digital distribution of information, there is minimal demand for printers.
Which of these trends ring true from your experience? What other trends are you seeing that aren’t included on this list? Join the discussion.

A great tribute to the Indian democracy - Dr Farrukh Saleem

By Dr Farrukh Saleem 12/9/2007

Here's what is happening in India:
The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169 million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.
In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 billion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.
In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned f orty-four three weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her birthday present: A sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom with mood lighting, a sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite television, wireless communication and a separate cabin with game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's wife, and Mukesh is not India's richest but t he second richest.
Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four flo ors above the guest floors are family floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea. On top of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the family and their family home.
In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive foreign direct investment destination. Pakistan wasn't even in the top 25 countries. In 2004, the United Nations, the representative body of 192 sovereign member states, had requested the Election Commission of India to assist the UN in the holding elections in Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah and Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election Commission of India and not the Election Commission of Pakistan? After all, Islamabad is closer to Kabul than is Delhi.
Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent of doctors in America are Indian; 36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.
For the record: Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail. Sun Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. The Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham. Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak project. Four out of ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians. Bollywood produces 800 movies per year and s ix Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.
For the record: Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the face of the planet, was born in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore.India now has more than three dozen billionaires; Pakistan has none (not a single dollar billionaire).
The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which India is creating wealth. In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani's father, left his two sons a fortune worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined wealth stood at $94 billion. On 29 October 2007, as a result of the stock market rally and the appreciation of the Indian rupee, Mukesh became the richest person in the world, with net worth climbing to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest American, stands at around $56 billion). Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome haplogroup. We have the same genetic sequence and the same genetic marker (namely: M124). We have the sam e DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our culture, our traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same movies and sing the same songs. What is it that Indians have and we don't?
INDIANS ELECT THEIR LEADERS

I am Sorry !!!

Its cold here in the city,it always seems that way& I've been thinking about you almost everyday.

Thinking about the good times,thinking about the rain,thinking about how bad it feels to be alone again.

I'm sorry for the way things are going.I'm sorry the things a'int what they used to be.

But more than anything else,I'm sorry for myself'Coz you're not here with me.

Our friends all ask about you,& I say you're doin fineI expect to hear from you almost anytime.
They all know I am crying,I cant sleep at night.They all know I'm dying deep down inside.

I am sorry for all the lies I told you,I am sorry for the things i didnt say.
More than anything else,I'm sorry for myself

Living without you........

The Single Crease

2001, Class VIIIth, I remember myself watching Sachin Tendulkar hitting Glen McGrath all over the park. Crowd screaming, shouting out of joy, accolades blah blah. That very day I had decided that I will be the next Sachin of the GenNext since every good thing has to come to an end one day, Sachin will retire for sure. But suddenly I heard a voice who pulled me out of this magnificent dream.Believe it or not, I was day dreaming. I was asked to 'GO & STUDY'.

I was continously reprimanded for what parents say 'WASTAGE OF TIME'.
Television, Computer, Music, Learning French, Computer Games, Animation, Game Programming, 3D-Graphics Development, Not studying infront of them - A Wastage of Time.

Utilization of Time - Study, Study , MCA, MBA, BBA, BCA .. I cannot list all of them over here.
Is this what we were born for ?

to be continued later........