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To: AlienTech who wrote (17526)	3/22/1998 11:18:00 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

AT-- Rockets give nations this delusion of false greatness- Roars up carries the flag high may be morale boaster and opium to hundreds of millions of poor masses-- on both side of border this love of pomposity and grandeur is not in short supply - 22 horse drawn buggees entries by our head of states is a loud elan of our leadership love for habits of royalty- What space programmes when we have a high infant mortality rate of 107/1000 births and extreme poverty that sends shivers down the spine of all of us here in sub-continent I hope we can overcome this race and concentrate on evil of poverty eroding our basic infrastructure, Pakistan and India have no way but to find a recipe of peaceful co-existance that is the only option.

To: AlienTech who wrote (17526)	3/24/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: E. Graphs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Alien Tech, I very much enjoyed your posts and thanks for the link. Also, on MSFT and India: 03/24 14:18 Microsoft to open software center in India In SEATTLE story headlined ''Microsoft to open software center in India,'' pls read in 10th graf ...9,800 research and development positions... instead of ...1,700 software development positions... (correcting figure and description of positions) A corrected story follows SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corpsaid Monday it would open a software development center in India, only its second outside the company's U.S. headquarters. The new center will open later this year in the city of Hyderabad in the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, company executives said ahead of an announcement scheduled to be made Tuesday afternoon in Bombay. ''The primary reason we are doing this is the availability of a large amount of talent in India,'' said S. ''Soma'' Somasegar, who will oversee work at the new development office from Microsoft headquarters. ''We want the best possible people worldwide,'' he said. ''This is part of that strategy.'' Somasegar said the center initially would be staffed with 25 employees, most to be hired locally, and would focus on ensuring Microsoft's Windows NT and BackOffice software can operate with programs developed by other companies. The Indian center is expected to grow, but Somasegar declined to make any projections. Microsoft Corp. chief executive Bill Gates and other software executives have complained in recent years of a shortage of software engineers in the United States, exacerbated by a limited number of visas available to bring workers from overseas. While Microsoft's corporate culture stresses the centrality of its suburban Seattle corporate campus, in recent years Gates has acknowledged the need to open satellites elsewhere to attract talented engineers and research scientists. Microsoft has been expanding in California's Silicon Valley and is opening a research center in Cambridge, England. Still, 14,000 of the company's 25,000 employees, including nearly all its 9,800 research and development positions, are located in Seattle's Redmond area. The company's only other software development center is a 7-year-old site in Israel with about 60 full-time employees, said Moshe Dunie, a Microsoft vice president. Microsoft executives have been working for more than a year on the Indian plans, which had been expected to be announced formally late last year. Gates, who visited India a year ago, was quoted last fall as saying a software center would be established on the subcontinent. Microsoft will get tax incentives and other benefits offered by Andhra Pradesh to attract foreign investment, Somasegar said. ^REUTERS@ Reut14:19 03-24-98