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Open source news wrapup

By Brij Singh ⋅ May 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Here is a quick list of the open source related news in last one week:
- Simula Labs launches an Idealab-type portfolio approach to funding open source based services startup. They got a commitment of 10 to 15million over the course of 3 years to fund and incubate 6 to 8 startups. That number comes to [...]

Virgin Dabbawala

By Brij Singh ⋅ April 7, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

This guy knows how to reach out:
Story of Dabbawalas is fascinating. Their execution model is a classic operations research example:
The tiffins are collected, sorted out, coded and sent to their destinations. Every station has a numerical code and each place has an alphabetical code. The tiffin carries the code of the source and the [...]

There is lot more to do

By Brij Singh ⋅ December 28, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Overall toll count keeps climbing and to make things bad we have this real danger of epidemic spreading all over the place. This calamity is without any parallel and we will be discovering heart wrenching stories for many months. In times like these one wonders what more we can do ?
Donating money is the [...]

3 cents per page

By Brij Singh ⋅ December 15, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Thats the rough cost to digitize a page. This is definitely a big money project.
Lately I have been forming "Google as a next MSFT" negative thinking, but on this I am ready to bow in front of them. This is a game changing project. Cant wait to see all the books on the net.
For [...]

Eastward Ho!

By Brij Singh ⋅ December 1, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

[Via Rediff]
Why are tech employees returning to their home base?
In June this year, a study conducted by global IT research firm
Forrester Research called "Understanding the IT services vendors’
offshore approaches" alerted the industry to the reverse exodus. It
said that "while the US-based vendors in India have been luring
qualified staff away from their India employers," many are [...]

MLODI

By Brij Singh ⋅ February 29, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Merrill Lynch has come up with a model to track and evaluate the on-demand computing solution adoptions -
From their website :-
“The MLODI will serve as an objective measure designed to reflect the fundamentals of software companies as they make the transition to on-demand business models,” Jason Maynard, Merrill Lynch’s software analyst, said at the [...]

Managing false negatives

By Brij Singh ⋅ December 2, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Article in HBS on how sometimes success begins at failure citing example of compound UK-92,480 (better known as Viagra) -
Strategy to prempt false negatives -
Review all canceled projects
Expose projects to outsiders
Seek external licenses
Spin technologies off
Seek external VC partners

Reality check on DCML

By Brij Singh ⋅ October 20, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Reality check on DCML, adoption will be key. Need to evaluate from AssuredWeb’s point of view
They can build adapters to the systems, networking and storage components that will enable their reference code and products to work, but without the direct support of the big systems vendors, DCML will remain of limited use,” Travis says.
In [...]

Get naked

By Brij Singh ⋅ October 20, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Management guru Don Tapscott writes about the need for organizations to adopt the concepts of “Naked Corporation” . I dont think there is anything new in this philosophy apart from the fact that there is an attempt to paint this as next management fad to adopt. Anybody who is closely following the [...]

Battered company maps strategy for comeback

By Brij Singh ⋅ October 7, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I wonder what prescription Clayten has for Sun. If Sun has to cannibalize their cash cow in order to be relevant in future then what all businesses they should exit and which business they should focus on. I would bet my money on N1 and come out completely from SPARC and expensive Solaris investments. [...]

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