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...Satheesh, 32, an employee of Wipro, one of India's leading outsourcing companies, is among her country's new elite. She manages 38 people who work for Hewlett-Packard's enterprise-servers group doing maintenance, fixing defects and enhancing the networking software developed by HP for its clients. Her unit includes more than 300 people who work for HP, about 90 of whom were added last November when HP went through a round of cost-cutting...
...been associated with HP for a long time, so it was an emotional thing," Satheesh says. "It was kind of a mixed feeling. But that is happening at all the companies, and it's going to continue." Satheesh says that five years ago, computer-science graduates had one career option in India: routine, mind-numbing computer programming. Anything more rewarding required emigrating. "Until three years ago, the first preference was to go overseas," she says. Nowadays her colleagues are interested only in business trips to the U.S. "People are pretty comfortable with the jobs here and the pay here...
Listwin set out to fix the software, adopted a more conservative revenue model and made lucrative deals with such companies as HP, IBM, Lucent, Siemens and Sprint. In Japan, phone giants KDDI and J-Phone fed the craze for multimedia messaging--sending enhanced cell-phone snapshots to your friends--with Openwave software. Openwave's annual revenue has stabilized at $250 million. The stock is back above $2. Multimedia messaging is just starting to take off in the U.S. and Europe, via Sprint and Nokia. Analysts expect Openwave to be fully profitable in 2004. Perhaps then Listwin can afford to celebrate...
...only. The company slashed prices at home, then turned abroad. Competitors scoffed at the idea of selling direct overseas, but unit shipments to China, Japan, France and Germany were up 39% in the first quarter over the same period last year. The product mix expanded too. Dell took on HP and IBM in servers and services, and teamed up with EMC on storage...
...artists and programmers of Anatomical Travelogue huddle over their desks like monks in a scriptorium. Their quills are superfast HP workstations in the center of an industrial-chic penthouse in Manhattan's trendy Tribeca neighborhood. Their manuscripts are digital scans of the body, illuminated into images so startlingly vivid that even scientists stop and stare. And the abbot here is an artist--self-taught in math, physics and business--named Alexander Tsiaras. Blurring the lines between science and art, the company's work resists easy categorization. "It's Fantastic Voyage meets the TIME-LIFE Books series," says Tsiaras...