The Tour de Force events across the globe continue to draw great attendance and interest from developers looking to build new SaaS applications. The event is yet to make its way to India but I have been traveling across India (Pune & Bangalore) meeting with partners, educating them about Force.com and Platform as a Service […]
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India, Real Estate and Some Numbers
I just returned after spending a few weeks in New Delhi, India. The incredible pace of growth in India inspired me to see if I can participate in the growth by investing. India does not allow direct investment in equity markets for non-resident Indian citizens (and definitely not not foreigners). I do invest in US-listed […]
Italy Refuses Visa; Sings Aria of Disappointment
Let this be a lesson to all nations including America – if you close your doors to foreigners: immigrants and visitors – prosperity is unlikely to come by. In India there is a saying that roughly translated means “Unexpected guests bring prosperity”, and it seems that whether you believe in the elephant god Lord Ganesha […]
Goldman: Chinese or Indian Banks May Buy American Banks
I never thought I would see this in my lifetime but emerging market financial institutions from India or China may be able to buy out American banks due to the fallout from mortgage crisis, according to the latest Goldman Sachs report. The report by Goldman Sachs Group Inc says: Further, we would not be surprised […]
India still needs WaaS, PaaS and not (only) SaaS
by indoloony India is making a lot of progress with more new billionaires being minted every month. The focus on software industry sometimes takes away from what are more pertinent problems- Water (as a Service) and Power (as a Service). Most Delhiites get around 2 to 4 hours of water supply and must have intricate […]
Broadband for $1 a month, SaaS and Flat World
I just returned from a two week India trip, and was once again amazed by the rate of change- or to be more precise the rate of change in the rate of change (acceleration). I attended an event hosted by TiE New Delhi where a speaker mentioned that the cost of broadband in India is […]
Banking in Brazil – BRIC2.0 or Web2.0
I have been receiving these podcast alerts from Gartner and one of them caught my eye-“What Banks should know about Web2.0”. The podcast available here talks about how Web2.0 will inevitably impact the banking industry. The analyst talks about how money will change hands in MySpace, how banks are using podcasts and that RSS feeds […]
Ever heard of UFIDA, KingDee, Tally?
Well, you may never have heard of these enterprise software vendors but they are the giants from China and India. KingDee and UFIDA are #1 and #3 vendors in China and Tally is the top local vendor in India. Gartner recently predicted that a large vendor will emerge from China and India over the next […]