Baishampayan Ghose is one of the founders of the Ubuntu India. He has been an active user & developer of Free & Open Source Software for as long as he can remember.
BG was interviewed by Mutiny.in — Read the interview — about Ubuntu in India.
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Why Wipro, Infosys and TCS are “The Axis of Evil” for Indian startups
A fantastic article, a topic which I’ve always discussed verbally with my teams and in the Startup circle — Why Wipro, Infosys and TCS are “The Axis of Evil” for Indian startup space — from Vishal Gondal, Founder of IndiaGames.
A must-read for any developer, entrepreneur and those startup people.
Because of their own inefficiencies they have created a beast which is now unmanageable. Think about it — the Indian IT employee has got an average salary hike of about 20% year on year which means in the last decade salaries have gone up 5x and attrition is on a all time high. Which means after all the salary hike, free lunch, fancy office buildings and over-pampering of employees, keeping them on “bench” for years?
Read the article — Why Wipro, Infosys and TCS are “The Axis of Evil” for Indian startup space.
Why oCricket?
I had always wanted to do something about Cricket but could never do it more because of my work schedules and my own lack of focus with the topic. Somewhere during late 2006, I finally decided to get along and thus booked this domain name.
Of course, something as popular as cricket, it was hard for any name to come by easily. Many people are pre-pending letters like “i” (the Apple people) or “g” (the Google guys). So, I decided to have something and I used a simple “o” in front of cricket to have what it is today — oCricket.
This blog will be the notebook of the journey of the team behind oCricket.