i, me and myself

We are going through Global financial melt down. I have been screaming about it for quite some time. I have been born and brought up, as a professional, in this increasingly flattening global economy. I draw an analogy of global economy being an elephant which has been an big fat beast standing on one thick leg, the US economy. What is happening now is that this elephant is unfurling its other three legs. They are Europe, China, India (feel free to disagree with the legs analogy with me here). This is obviously creating a lot of unrest, investors are upset, Feds are under fire, Mortgage market is a drama, US dollar is devaluing So we are heading towards globalization alright! When I went for interviews, people often asked me: "How come you changed jobs this quick?" I said :"Globalization!" so lets take walk down the lane and see how I experienced it and tried my best to survive it. In 2001 - 2002... I was desperate to find a IT firm to do my curriculam project. Then...

Education - IT Market Study India ØMarket size for the year 2008-2010 as Rs.4000 crore and underlying hardware as Rs.7000 crore Ø1.20 million Schools spread over 609 districts across 35 states and union territories of India ØColleges : 16,885 Universities nearly 350 ØCurrently, only 5% of the institutes in India have an ERP system in place ØThousands of private organizations, which constitute nearly 15% of the total number of schools in India ØMarket Expansion expected to be approximately 3% per year ØThe domestic IT market is expected to cross $23 billion in the current fiscal year to March 2008. References: •2007,A Tool for Quality Enhancement by Educate Institute Automation •ERP Software Market 2007-2010 by IIIM,Bangalore •Information Technology in Educational Institutions by Market Research Report, Feb 2008 United States ØTotal Number of K-12 Schools : 133,362 ØTotal number of colleges and universities: 4,140 ØThe annual growth rate is expected to reach over 30%. ØCalifornia school...

I have recently read about schizophrenia, I was wondering how many of us really have this disorder. When I walk down the street I can see so many people talking to themselves. Do they have the same syndrome? I have also felt sometimes some of my friends acting strange out of their character. Even some people talk about themselves which they are not, trying to do an image processing as if they are heroes when they are not unique. Do they have Schizophrenia too? Infact I started to believe John Nash was normal comparing to some of the people I have met. (For the guys who don’t remember John Nash please check the movie “A Beautiful Mind” , he is a noble prize winner for mathematics who had the same disorder in his adulthood) So what is schizophrenia? "Schizophrenia" is a disorder of a human mind which sees things which is not exist or believe in things which is not real or living in an imagination world or disorganized speech and thinking disorder. It can be cured only by medita...

Recent Hubble Space Telescope images of distant exploding stars add further confirmation to the permanence of a mysterious, repulsive force called dark energy that appears to dominate the universe. While scientists are not ready to close the case, they said today that dark energy, which is thought to permeate the cosmos and work in opposition to gravity, does appear to be a constant presence as predicted. The results bolster a theory that the universe won't end soon. But they leave researchers no more informed about the actual nature of dark energy. "We still have almost no clue what it is," said study leader Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore. Dark energy was conjured to explain a phenomenal discovery in 1998: Nearly all galaxies in the universe are receding from each other at an ever-faster pace. Gravity is losing some unknown battle, cosmologists admit. They theorize that about 70 percent of the universe is made up of dark energy, ...

Before the release of Windows Vista, expectations for the new operating system were high fueled by both promises of new features, higher security, and an improved user interface, as well as the five year period since the release of Windows XP from MicroSoft. As a result, many consumers and businesses planned on upgrading to Vista. However, after its release, it was met with harsh criticism, as reflected by its title from PC World as the biggest tech disappointment of 2007 and from InfoWorld as #2 of Tech's all-time 25 flops.The market share for Windows Vista, taking the median from various sources, was 9.03% as of February 2008. Though MicroSoft sold 20 million copies of Vista which is double higher than XP installations in 2001, but critics says Vista is nowhere near XP and disappoints both consumer and business users. However, PC World reports that adoption of Windows Vista is going at a much slower rate compared to the adoption of Windows XP. The market research firm’s data sh...

Regional and state government spending is growing faster than federal spending, creating new IT opportunities and challenges, says Springboard Research. Based on its market analysis, Springboard expects IT spending to be US.5 billion in 2007, with the market growing at a compound annual rate of 6.9% from 2006 through 2010. Springboard’s analysis also showed that Japan, while growing much slower than the rest of Asia, is still by far the largest market in the region, accounting for 45% of public sector IT spending. China and Australia are the next largest markets, accounting for 20%, and 11%, respectively, of public sector technology spending. India is the fastest growing market in the region, and the market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19.5% through 2010. Key sub-verticals within the public sector include education (public and private), which will account for 22% of spending in 2007. Other key sub-verticals are healthcare (public and private) and defense/secu...