The Rediff Interview with Michael Porter, head, Strategy Insititute, Harvard with title ‘India still has a long way to go’ by Manjari Raman posted on December 29, 2004 at http://us.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/29inter.htm
More than one way he says, that Indians are good, but India as a business environment is not (yet).“Indians come to the US and they thrive! [...]

This article highlights some of the Indian Born product ventures, that received global acclaim. It is still a long way to go, but this proves the path taken is in the right direction.
“Tejas Networks and Ittiam Systems joined the global technology products big league by finding takers for their offerings. Subex Systems moved [...]

Posting at http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/114687.html
IT’s still happening in AndhraHyderabad, December 30, 2004
Brand Hyderabad finally arrived in style on the IT map of the country in 2004. Three big ticket happenings towards the end of the year confirmed the credentials that the city had slowly been building up as a preferred destination for IT investments, software and hardware, [...]

Not long ago, some businessman compared IITs with the MIT and went on to say IITs are better than all the BEST in US combined. Sounds foolish. But most of the Media made it sink in the thoughts of many Indians as truth.
Some reality check, see if they can find where are IITs [...]

C/C++ Articles & References that I have recently visited:
The C++ Sourcehttp://www.artima.com/cppsource/index.jsp
Boost Librarieshttp://www.boost.org/
ACE (Adaptive Communication Environment)http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
Guru Of The Weekhttp://www.gotw.ca/
Inform IThttp://www.informit.com/articles/index.asp?st=41346
C/C++ User Journalhttp://www.cuj.com/
Cetus Links http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_c_plus_plus.html
Design Patterns – Tutorialshttp://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/tutorials-patterns.html
Bjarne Stroustrup Home Pagehttp://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
http://www.partow.net/programming/index.html