Once upon a time, life was very simple. We were proud of our black & white television that showed just one program at a time,for limited hours. The bulky phone occupied a prominent place of privilege in those houses that were fortunate to get a connection after years of waiting. The telephone was shared by not just the family but at times by an entire village. Life was very simple those days. A phone was a phone was a phone, meant for talking if and when it worked and a TV was a TV, meant for watching audio-visual programs and a radio set was a radio set, meant for audio infotainment.
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Pre-placement talks late night in the chilly December of 2006 was my second tryst with Patni. The first happened six years back at my REC campus. An amateur first attempt to woo was rejected while a more mature second one got me in and here I am to recall and reflect my Patni experiences, although a few.
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Very often, the intensity of media and analyst coverage of the advancements in technology overwhelm many of us. The recent hype surrounding SOA, BPM, Web 2.0, and open source has fuelled speculation that shrink-wrap enterprise applications will become irrelevant in the wake of technology evolution. Technology pundits say that the emergence of new business models and technology paradigms are forcing a shift from inflexible and stove-piped applications with ever-escalating total-cost-of-ownership and poor user experience.
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