"The brontosaurus moved deeper into the swamps when the mammals took over the forest, but one day it ran out of swamps."
----from Computer Wars as quoted by Lou Gerstner in: Who says elephants can't dance?
Suddenly the world is a different place, in today’s environment nothing is constant or predictable
----Hammer and Champy- Re-engineering the corporation
CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE: A partial finite enumeration of ceritfiable, positive and progressive associations with concepts/ideas/environments/organisations/people over a period of 6 years (1997-2002), in the initial days of the internet, pc, communications,globalisation, y2k and software offshoring revolutions in India, created circa 2002, to study indexing in upcoming internet search engines.
A wee bit about myself and my environment
EXPERIMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF IT LABOR FOR THE
SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
MODERN SOFTWARE IS EXTREMELY LABOR INTENSIVE
THIS OPENS UP THE MARKET FOR AVERAGE TO SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE 10+2 STUDENTS, AND GRADUATES IN ANY FIELD IN
THE MONETARY RETURNS ARE HIGH FOR THESE SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
JOBS CAN INVOLVE MAINTENANCE, TESTING, DETAILED DESIGN, CODING AND VARIOUS OTHER ROUTINE ACTIVITIES
WITNESS THE RISE OF THE
SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
THE AVAILABILITY OF THE PERSONAL WORKSTATION HAS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS OPENED UP A LARGE NUMBER OF OPPORTUNITIES IN THE
THE PRESENT SITE DEALS WITH THE EXPERIMENTATION IN TURNING OUT IT LABOR ON A LARGE SCALE FOR SOFTWARE AND ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION
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I WAS INVOLVED IN EXPERIMENTING WITH
IT LABOR FOR THREE YEARS FOR
AND
TASKS IN THE INDIAN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
PRIMARILY THIS INVOLVED Y2K AND MAINTENANCE OF LEGACY SOFTWARE ON THE
FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF MULTINATIONALS IN
THE SOFTWARE I SPECIALISED IN AS A "LONE WOLF" WAS THE
MAINFRAME
IN WHICH I HAD "SINGLE HANDEDLY" EFFECTIVELY TRAINED ABOUT 300 SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, THESE IN TURNED TURNED OUT ANOTHER 1500 MAINFRAME ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMERS. THE SIZE OF THE INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH WORKING SOFTWARE VARIED FROM A MILLION LINES OF CODE TO OVER 50 MILLION LINES OF CODE.
I WAS ALSO INVOLVED WITH PL/I(BOTH MVS AND DOS/VSE) AND COBOL ON THE MAINFRAME. THIS SOFTWARE OF
COMPANIES WAS MANY
OF LINES OF CODE. THE NAMES OF THE COMPANIES ARE WITHELD AS PER THE AGREEEMENT WITH MY CLIENTS for some time.
Now that a couple of years have passed from the Y2K effort some of the
COMPANIES INVOLVED were
GE
GM
EDS
WHEELS
HEALTHION
FUJITSU
HITACHI
FDR
FDS
BANK OF MONTREAL
EUROPEAN COMPANIEW IN PL/I
CMM LEVEL 5 SOFTWARE COMPANY
WITH THE END OF THE Y2K MARKET AND THE SATURATION IN THE MAINFRAME MARKET I WAS INVOLVED IN OPEN SYSTEMS IN
CONSULTANCY & TRAINING FOR THE SAME SET OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE. THE C++ SOFTWARE INVOLVED THE DEVELOPMENT OF
. THE NAMES OF THE
INVOLVED ARE WITHELD AS PER MY AGREEEMENT WITH MY CLIENTS for some time.
Now that the Y2K effort is behind us some of the corporations involved were
PRACTICALLY