An email in 1997

This is an email i received from an Indian guy:

I AM HAPPY TO SAY I HAVE RECIVED A WIDE SUPORT ALREADY.PLEASE FWD THIS TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE . BOTH PAKISTANIS AND INDIANS ALIKE. PLEASE REMEBER THE SUCCESS OUR MISSION DEPENDS ON MAXIMUM SUPPORT FROM ALL QUARTERS.IF POSSIBLE SEND THE SAME MAIL TO ALL MEDIA GROUPS

RESPECTED SIR

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THE SOUTH ASIAN NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST THEN YOU. YOU ARE THE

FOLKS WHO INFORM THE WORLD.

OUR LEADERS WILL TELL ANY LIE TO CREATE A MAKE BELIEVE WORLD FOR THEIR

VESTED INTERESTS. A WORLD THAT WILL TEACH US TO HATE, DISTRUST AND

DISRESPECT EACH OTHER. THIS IS MOST EVIDENT BY THE VOLUMINOUS VENOM THAT

IS BEING HEAPED AGAINST EACH OTHER BY THE FANATIC INDIANS AND PAKISTANIS

ALIKE ON THE MESSAGE BOARDS. WE ARE INVENTING NEW WAYS TO DESTROY EACH

OTHER. THAT TOO AT THE COST OF SEVERAL NEEDY INNOCENTS, WHILE OUR LEADERS

TAKE SHELTER IN AIRCONDITONED NUKE PROOF CHAMBERS.

INDIA'S REAL ENEMY IS NOT PAKISTAN AND PAKISTAN'S ENEMY IS NOT INDIA.

WE THE PEOPLE ARE OUR OWN BIGGEST ENEMIES. WE NEED TO STOP ANHILATING

OURSELVES. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS EGO-GRATIFYING EXALTATIONS AND

JINGOISTIC NATIONALISM.

YOU GUYS ARE THE MEDIA. YOU CAN MAKE A VOICE HEARD BY ONE AND ALL.

THE PROBLEM RIGHT NOW IS WE HAVE A ZEALOUS MINORITY DECIDING WHAT IS RIGHT

FOR MAJORITIES.IF THE RIGHT CONCERNS AND DESIRES ARE VOICED, THEN FOR SURE

OUR LEADERS HAVE TO FOLLOW SUIT.

I AM AN INDIAN .I HAVE NOTHING AGAINS TTHE PAKISTANIS AND I WANT TO

START AN INDO-PAK FRIENDSHIP COUNCIL. THOSE INTERESTED MAY CONTACT ME,

VAMSI AYYAGARI AT VAM420@HOTMAIL.COM. IN THE INTERNET, THERE ARE A FEW WHO

WILL PAY HEED. BUT IF YOU FOLKS DESIRE, THERE WILL BE MILLIONS WHO CAN BE

REACHED. AND WE CAN GIVE REAL PEACE AN EVERLASTING CHANCE.

I KNOW YOU MAY SEE NO NEED IN PUBLISHING OR ANNOUNCING THIS IN ALL THE

MEDIA YOU CONTROL OR INFLUENCE. AFTER ALL THE FACT REMAINS I AM NO ONE

GREAT. BUT I AM JUST A CRAZED CITIZEN AND AN INDIAN WHO THINKS THERE IS NO

NEED FOR EVERYONE IN THE WORLD TO DELIBERATELY TELL OURSELVES TO HATE EACH

OTHER. THE PROBLEM WITH OUR NATIONS LIES NOT SO MUCH IN THE FACT THAT THEY

CAN BE SOLVED AS WE LACK THE WILL TO SOLVE THEM.

IF YOU CAN BE KIND ENOUGH TO PUT THIS ON EVERY MEDIA (TV, YOUR TELECASTS

AND INTERNET) I WILL BE GRATEFULL TO YOU.

IT IS UPTO TO YOU TO DECIDE WHETHER YOU AS A RESPONSIBLE MEDIA WANT TO

MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.

SINCERLY AND WITH A LOT OF HOPE - '

VAMSI MOHAN AYYAGARI

VAM420@HOTMAIL.COM

Do you need more accountants or programmers?

In a traditional form of business, when the business increase, we tend to increase the number of accountants, and other staff.

What our companies need to think of is the next generation adaptation of computers.

What I mean by that is that most of the businesses are now using excel, and ms word to run there business.

Some others are using peach tree, quick books, act, and other soft wares like this, however only .10 % of the people use Programmers to customize there own needs as per there needs.

I firmly belive after my experience, that as businesses grow, they must start a software department, that does not maintain a network, but actually makes software that is carved around there own needs.

If you talk to any business, all they want is there accounts software made, they do not really care about anything else, and many I would say 20% actually buy software to manage accounts, but the accountants are still there to do the data entry.

Be it reconciliation of accounts, be it other needs like that, but what they do not do is get TAYLOR made software according to there needs.

I think for any business to grow they must hire a full time programmer and a web designer, who will maintain there online shop and make there running cost lower and lower.

AS time will pass, we will see banks offering secure feeds to integrate into our billing software, to manage the accounts system, we will see all the companies offering there data to others, so that the data can be matched, we will see the government offering web services to integrate the billing systems in to it.

Its only a matter of time, when all the world will be so deeply wired that we will not really need to do multiple data entry, and the seller and buyer’s systems will talk to each other seamlessly without the need of entry by multiple party.

As internet penetrates and web applications become more available, we will see the servers in our offices disappear, we will see local applications disappear, and web applications coming alive.

Imagine a world without hotmail and yahoomail , almost every single internet user in the world uses or has a web mail account.

This is how our accounting, billing and other software’s will be, u will not be able to imagine anything without an online software.

If your company does not have anything to do with internet today, have your programs made using the web applications locally, you can run them from ANY PC, without installing any software and a really low cost pii can be then used as a dumb terminal with a internet explorer or firefox installed , and your software will run at the same speed as a visual basic client software, but u wont have to install anything and u wont have to worry about viruses or anything on your pc.

Once your business expand, u can take the same software and move your server into a data center or connect it to the internet, and wala, your customers can now access there invoices via the web.

Then will come web services where your server and your client’s server will talk to each other and share the invoices, and data with each other to collaborate and u will not need to make entries.

And then we will see the Government offering web services to send all your tax returns and sales tax information online instantly, and ur tax will be paid on the spot.

All this is not a fiction, it is a reality, and many of the leading companies in the world are now going towards that.

If you think u can get away with it, that’s not true, sooner or later u have to do it, so why not start today ? invest a small money on hiring a programmer, who works closely with you accountant and with you and start developing your in house applications.

Start with free open source software’s like sugar CRM for ur sales management , trixbox for your pbx, tikiwiki for your inhouse filing, mambo for your web site, and other gazillion software out there which u can transform to be used for your own use.

Have an EDGE on your competition, reduce ur cost, be more efficient.

Remember Information is power.

Pakistan Telecom and ICT Facts

Population of the Country: 150+ Million People ( 9 times the size of Australia, 50 times larger then UAE, Singapore And Hong Kong)

Names of International Banks: Standard Chartered, HSBC, CITIBANK, over 24 more international banks.

Mobile Operators: GSM Operators 7 (Telenor, Orascom, Etisalat) CDMA 5 in service, 13 more coming.

Cost of a Call: Pay 2.5$us a month for unlimited calls from Mobile to Mobile
Cost of International Call: Same as calling a local number inside Pakistan 2-5 Cents a min.

Number of Telephones: 40 Million (Growing 24% a year)

Broadband Cost: 128k Connection 1000 rs a month (18$)

Number of Email Users: 15 Million +

Average IT Person Salary: 100$ to 1000$+ a month