Hi All,
Sorry to Spidey, cud'nt yet get hold of my copy of Women's Era(How can I? Its a girlie Magazine),
Now we are a good bunch of people here, Let's introduces ourselves to each other.
Lets start this off from me. Well! I am Nitin Dandriyal, a Software Engineer working in Bangalore. I like Swimming, Rock Climbing, Trekking and love to listen to Hindi Music & English Soft Rock.
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I would like to share wit you people excerpts of an interview of yet another pillar of India, Chairman of Infosys Narayana Murthy. I think you'll like it.
"..... Looking at it another way, at USD 76,000, Infosys per
person productivity is 150 times the Indian per capita
GDP. We have to accept that people working in India
will have lower per capita income.
Will you always need thousands of people to get to
billions of dollars?
It is inevitable. We have to hire if we have to grow.
We have built a scalable model; we understand the game
and we play the game that way. We are gearing up to
expand significantly in the next five years.
What do you foresee for the Indian software industry?
Today, we have 5-6 people in the multi-billion
category. If we have eight, it will be wonderful.
Could be MNCs...job opportunities are created in
India. A couple could be Indian companies as
well--very feasible. About 15-20 in the next
category...half the revenue of top companies. I wish
more and more companies join the first rung. I don't
see any problem in having eight at the top. Both
Accenture and IBM are serious about India. They should
be able to join the first rung in terms of value
addition from India.
Do you think we might see Indian software companies
getting to the hub and spoke model where the small
companies survive through the ecosystem created by
large companies?
I feel, they have to create a niche for themselves in
the beginning and become unique players in their
niches. If they want to play the game our way, it is
unlikely; the top four have created such advantages
for themselves in terms of financial muscle, training,
people, infrastructure that it is not easy. If I were
in their shoes, I won't compete with these guys. I
would get to a niche and do something. For instance,
none of the top guys have anything significant in
healthcare practice. May be that's a good area. Or in
tourism. They need to focus, become leaders and then
expand laterally. Once customers know you, you can
grow.
We have seen trends such as Y2K, Internet,
Outsourcing, etc., driving our growth. What is the
next trend? When do you think we can create a trend of
our own and grow?
I think we should look at salesforce.com kind of
business or product --that is, providing a web-based
software platform. To me that offers extraordinary
opportunities for India. This depends only on
development--quickly adding new features. This could
definitely be the next wave. The web is truly a level
playing field and all can compete very well. You can
build such a web platform and have all services in the
US. It is not dependent on marketing. Here it doesn't
need huge infrastructure to create anything. On the
net, it is a different model."