CEO Corner
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Cautious Optimism
Welcome to the eighth edition of Fands Mail. The year 2008 has brought
to an end a dream run for the Indian IT organisations. The current year
as we are addressing is of “Cautious Optimism”. It is creating a scenario
where business enquiries are not slowing but business decisions are.
I think this is not just a time to think of strategy to “beat the slowdown
effect” it is also time to reflect on all the nice things that we enjoyed
in the last couple of years. One of the privileges I have had as CEO of
Fands Infonet is the fact that we have Positioned Fands as a Corporate
Training organisation that has pioneered a number of Programs and that
too with our internal trainers.
I think this would not have been possible without
- Having a large number of clients across the country
- Having trainers who prided on being pioneers
But above all, this would not have been possible without
the Total Trust many of the clients have repeatedly shown in our trainers.
I take the opportunity to thank the umpteen number of times clients across
the country have shown confidence in providing us opportunities to conduct
training in new areas for the first time. I am listing a few firsts that
I am really proud of.
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IMPOSSIBLE…
Darshan Deokule
‘Impossible man…this just cannot happen’ a phrase we so often proclaim.
Well, when we say this word ‘impossible’ do we ever ask ourselves? What
would have happened if an early human would have said that it was impossible
to create fire? Coming much closer to our present lifestyles what would
have happened if the Wright brothers would have believed that it was
impossible for a man to fly. Cell phones…Dr Martin Cooper never thought
it was impossible for a person to stay in touch without wires
There are very many examples in the world where we thought this
was impossible and that was impossible. History has proven that given
a situation a possibility arises and evolves into a concept and then
a regular usage.
‘Impossible’ a word so easy…
Statistics prove that the word ‘Impossible’ is as easily uttered as the words ‘sorry’ or ‘thank you’. Given a task and we think it is far too difficult to achieve, we just need to plainly say it is impossible.
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Hilarious Court Cases These are from a book called "Disorder in the Court."
These are things people actually said in court, word
for word, taken down and now published by court
reporters - who had the torment of staying calm while
these exchanges were actually taking place.
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July fifteenth.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
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Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you
when he woke up that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
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Q: And where was the location of the accident?
A: Approximately milepost 499.
Q: And where is milepost 499?
A: Probably between milepost 498 and 500.
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Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next
morning?
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Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
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Overview of Dotnet 3.5 Framework
Padmakar Kulkarni
If we look at the graph, depicting evolution of Microsoft's technologies,
we can clearly notice that the abstraction level in Application scenarios
has been raised drastically so that the developers can completely
concentrate on the requirements without bothering much about other stuff.
Prior to .NET these abstraction levels had two issues:
1. The abstraction technologies weren't originally designed to work together, which lead to integration concerns.
2. Though these abstraction technologies were created to help the developer community, they were still requiring developers to learn a lot.
Ex: ASP required either Visual Basic Script or JScript, and ATL required C++
Microsoft's goal for the .NET Framework is to fix all of this. You'll notice that the
abstraction technologies were designed to make a particular application scenario
easier. With the .NET Framework, Microsoft's goal is not to provide an abstraction technology for developers building a particular kind of application; Microsoft's goal is to provide an abstraction technology for the platform or Microsoft Windows operating system itself. In other words, the .NET Framework raises the abstraction level for any and all kinds of applications. Every step in the Microsoft's latest release .NET Framework 3.5 has been aimed at providing a better and more productive environment.
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