May I take this opportunity for an interesting case study:
I know you all are working in major IT companies and providing support to renowned customers in different field, Telecom, Banking, Insurance.... I am trying to make it generic independent of domain, pls bear with me. Let say you have a product which runs several batch programs in HP-UNIX platform with Oracle DB. For 1 mil transaction to process, your system takes around 8 hrs. to complete. Now the HP vendors (their marketing guys), propose your customer to buy HP-SUPERDOME and assure them that if they runs their system in this platform there will be a huge boost in performance (something may be 1 mil/hr). Your customer is delighted with the proposal and go for SUPERDOME and provide you the project to migrate your system. They may probably contact Oracle to as well for the Data Migration, if they have a separate production contract with Oracle vendors. Now, after the project is completed and started running in production, customer amazingly finds that the performance is still the same as before (even it has degraded further). Please tell me, whom they are going to blame; HP for providing lot of promises and cannot deliver, the system vendor that is you or the Oracle vendor? Most importantly, if customer, is going to arrange a meeting with all those parties, what will be the action plan they can take to mitigate this? Any idea? They cannot simply sit and say a Thank You to HP, I believe as yo
Re: Opportunity for a Case Study:
by Rajib Paul on Sep 03, 2008 04:07 AM Permalink
...you cannot buy a Ferrari and run it in the highway with 60 KM/hr which even Maruti 800 can run.
Please don't consider this as irrelevant w.r.t. the topics here. Your answer may help me to get ideas for political and soical reforms that are really needed for WB.
Negotiations have started between the govt and the opposition. The Tata threat is a pressure tactics -- though understandable. The following will happen in short order.
1. A deal would be reached about farmer rehabilitation, after Mamata Banerjee effectively gives up on the demand of returning 400 acres.
2. Despite this Mamata Banerjee will declare this as victory, and organize a "Singur-victory day" rally in Kolkata. Might even become a yearly event like her "martyr's day".
3. People will derive the right conclusions, and Mamata's dream of entering the Writers will be further away than when she started her agitation.
4. Nano will roll out on time.
On the whole given the fact that democratic opposition is a good thing, in hindsight it would not look as depressing as it does now (notwithstanding Mamata's brinksmanship). This is how one has to function in a democratic set-up -- hopefully Buddhadev has learnt his lesson and would be better prepared next time.
Re: No need to get excited.
by indranil mitra on Sep 03, 2008 03:54 AM Permalink
I hope so my friend.. I truly hope something like this happens.. For the sake of Bengal and for those millions of bengalis who has to step outside their birthplace for their livelihood. As a person who is in Bangalore for the last 9 yrs, nobody can understand the pain we go through. We are far away from our parents and can't even take care of them. This industry has to come up in Bengal and show the path for a better and prosperous life to all bengalis. Same as the one which Marathis and Gujratis have.
Re: No need to get excited.
by Jagadis Bose on Sep 03, 2008 04:02 AM Permalink
I understand your sentiment -- but bear in mind that Bengalis such as you constitute only a fraction of the Bengali population. We need to pursue all-round development, and generating employment for the lower economic classes is the first imperative. And as pointed out by many people, the apparent "development" in Maratha and Gujrathi land is illusory -- it benefits only one section of the population, while leaving the interiors of these states in the starkest poverty.
want to ask a question:what does central govt did for this issue.Though not a ruling party in WB,considering national intrest,it should step in...our lady president also doesn't seems to be doing any good things...why cant national leaders step in for these kind of issues???mamta is shameless for making a mess of this project...1000's of labourers will lose jobs and earnings due to a single idiotic leader...Let her earn his earnings by working then only they will understand how it paints to earn a 10 Rupee for having a meal!
Re: what our leaders does for national issues!
by Surya Satyavolu on Sep 03, 2008 03:40 AM Permalink
You can not do anything in India when people like mamata are in US/NRI pockets. He he he...We bribed her to make sure "nano" does not roll out and increase the price of gas. See, how we brought the price of gas... HA HA HA....
It looks like coming Lok Sabha election Matata's Trinamul will be routed from West Bengal. She still has one seat in Lok Sabha from West Bengal. It looks more like her PULL OUT attempt from Lok Sabha as well.
Where is the motivation for the shift of power? Where is your choice my dear friend? Please let me know, where is the future lies in WB? Can you tell me, if Mamata becomes the CM of WB, how she is going to change the landscape of WB from the present situation? Did she have a growth plan ahead for WB for the next 5 yrs, if she get in power? The answer is a big "NO". Don't go by your heart, please think first and then answer me. Can somebody provide me what and how Mamata will help a better living for the farmers of Singur after Tata left Singur. I bet you, you cannot find her after 1 month (or even earlier) within 1 KM of Singur, as that will be a closed chapter by that time. Basically, people of WB doesn't have much choice, the left party has already hold back 30 yrs of productivity of WB, which cannot be compensated at any cost. Niether the picture is going to change, if Trinamul is in power. The only exception is Budhadev, but he is in the wrong party. However, even it was impossible for Brian Lara too to change the fate of West Indies which has already lost their prime. WB politics is in big hole (the story may be valid for entire India) as well. We need a political and social revolution.
