Computers Today October 16-31, 1998: Circuit

October 16-31, 1998 THE CIRCUIT

India, for Pramode Verma, is like a backyard. The New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies' MD handling business communications system comes here almost every year. "I have friends here and when invited can't refuse them" says the NRI who was in the capital to give his keynote address at CSI.

Adobe Systems has appointed Jesse Young as managing director for Asia. Young was Adobe's senior director for sales and marketing support for Asia, Pacific and Latin America before taking up this new position.

Ramesh Malhotra, former IIT-Kanpur director, is back in action. He is the chairman of the Quantum Institute, a higher level computer education centre floated by Quantum and ET&T. "Where is the need to chalk out a separate Institute of Information Technology? Whatever sum you intend to spend on these new ones, put it all into the existing Indian Institutes of Technology," says Malhotra.

Shashi Ullal, is in a dilemma: what to do with the hundreds of greeting cards he received last year, which hang in his chambers at the Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd. "Many of them have a Ganpati motif. I just can't throw them out," says he sheepishly.

John Legere will replace Phil Kelly as Dell Computer's Asia-Pacific president when Kelly leaves the company at the end of the year to pursue unspecified entrepreneurial activities in the Asia region. Legere, president and CEO of AT&T's Asia-Pacific operations from 1994-97, joins Dell from AT&T Solutions' worldwide outsourcing division.

Joseph Abraham has joined Satyam Computer Services as Group Head for Human Resources. He will be based in the United States where Satyam has opened its maiden offshore development site. Earlier he was looking after HR at Tata Consultancy Services.

On the Comeback Trail Kailash Nath Gupta, 58, is in the seventh heaven. "Don't underestimate C-DoT (Centre for the Development of Telematics). We are very much alive and kicking," boasts the executive director. C-DoT has bagged an order for its Intelligent Network software package from the Department of Telecommunication. Competing and winning against MNCs was a great high for Gupta. Refusing the C-DoT dikat that the C-DoT technology be tested by Telecom Engineering Centre, he says "when my package is already being used by MTNL, why should I subject myself to re-evaluation?" Hence, DoT had no better alternative but to fall in line by removing the restrictive clauses from the purchase order. "My technology is more powerful, contemporary, and cost-effective than what MNCs have to offer," points out Gupta. What more?

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