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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: arun gera who wrote (1119)	11/23/1999 4:24:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12232

Gidday Arun, there's at least one more who registered a domain name for Qualcomm in, umm, it was near the middle southern area of India - SW of Bangalore somewhere. But that's only 3. There are another 900m or so of whom about 100m must be about the right sort of age and of those, about 1m must be pretty bright. Of those 1m, there must be 1% who'd be interested in making some serious money working for Q! in electronics/photonics/computering CDMA stuff. That would be 10,000 people! When visiting our friends in Kerala, there were Qualcomm ads for electronics people [1997]. I have no idea how many they hired. It seems a Qualcomm CDMA research, development, education and production place could be built in Bangalore. Then those few people [10,000] who'd like to chuck out 1 yr old Lexus [Lexi?] could live there and make CDMA really good for the world and India. They could start phone companies. Do all sorts. India would take off! Anyway, are Anil Kripalani and Arun Sarin Indian Indians or American Indians [I don't mean Native American Indians]? Meaning did they join Qualcomm direct from India or did they do their stuff or grow up in USA then join Q! after that? The answer doesn't matter. I just mean there are millions of underemployed Indians [in India] and Chinese [in China] who could be doing a lot more interesting and profitable stuff than they are doing now. They wouldn't even have to leave their comfortable culture and feel weird [or wired] driving on those huge freeways between San Diego and Escondido or Los Angeles. Cars, houses and stuff everywhere, but no people wandering around. Every street a pastiche of McDonalds, car yards, 7/11s, gas stations, banks, brands and stuff. We know a few international people and they often flee home to their comfortable cultures when they have done their time and made their dough. So much better to employ them in their home base. They stay comfortable. It's much cheaper on expenses. They can be paid locally competitive salaries. They can generate more interest locally and generate local business. Most countries are parochial and demand local jobs as part of doing business in an area so it works out well like that too. Technology transfer and all that too. Send those two guys [Anil and Arun] back to India and get them to hire another 10,000 and set up shop there! Meanwhile, Superconductor Technologies never really amounted to much! I guess you are still keeping an eye on it. CDMA filters must be good enough and the superconductor benefits don't justify the costs. The world needs better quality trash for trash aficionados to sort through! We want dumped BMW and Lexi! No more bottles and plastic bags. Mqurice