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Monday, September 11, 2000
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Indian stars in IT galaxy

Majority of us are busy on a wrong track, in a rat race. Evading law is our status symbol. We can do anything wrong and everything illegal is legal for us if we have a political Godfather or money to bribe.

However, if we have a positive approach and attitude, we can rightly and definitely feel proud to call ourselves Indians. Take a note of the facts mentioned below:

Qs. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems? (The company that is sweeping the Internet with its brainchild, Java)

Ans. Vinod Khosla

Qs. Who is the creator of Pentium chip?

Ans. Vinod Dahm

 

Qs. Who is the third richest person on the world?

Ans. According to the latest report in Fortune, it is Aziz Premji, CEO, Wipro. The Sultan of Brunei is 6th now.

Qs. Who is the current president of AT&T Bell Labs? (AT & T Bell Labs is the creator of C, C++, Unix, to name a few)

Ans. Arun Netravalli

Qs. Who is the founder-creator of Hotmail?

Ans.. Sabeer Bhatia

Qs. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?

Ans.. Rajiv Gupta

Qs. Who is the testing director of Windows 2000?

Ans.. Sanjay Tejwrika

We are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in the USA, faring even better than the Whites and the natives.

CEOs of the following well-known companies are Indians:

AppNet America Online (The largest ISP in the world), WebMethods, Lucent Technologies (pioneer in fibre optics), Proxicom Network Solutions (the sole Web domain assigner), General Dynamics Corporation, Lazard Freres, Litton, PRC Columbia, Capital Primus Communications, Discovery Communications, Bell Atlantic Cable & Wireless, The Motley Fool, Hughes Network Systems, Cybercash, MCI, Worldcom, PSINet, Motorola, MicroStrategy, Equalfooting.com, Teligent Inc., MindBank, US Airways, CIENA, Corp.BioNetrix, Net 2000 Communications, Computer Associates, SAIC, Startec, INOVA, Health System, Cvent.com, Eglobe, Metrocall Inc., DynCorp, Consumer Elec. Association, The Carlyle Group, Cyveillance, Nextel Communications, Fannie Mae, Intelsat Draper, Atlantic Venture Fund, LP Freddie, Mac Manugistics, Raytheon Systems Corporation, Spacevest

Let the world know what we stand for.

There are 3.22 million Indians in America.

34 per cent of Microsoft employees are Indians

28 per cent of IBM employees are Indians

17 per cent of Intel employees are Indians

13 per cent of Xerox employees are Indians

(This information was recently published in a German magazine)

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