Pronounced "Ado-bee", well in India we pronounce it as "Adob" where the "e" is silent. But I would have loved to continue to call it the Indian way, but now that I am part of it I will have to adhere to the formalities!
Google is famous for their great ideas, Apple for its cool looks and what does Adobe have in store for us... A traditional company that has packed its products with quality and have loyal customers who love Adobe Products! It grows on you... I love Photoshop, I love Flash and there are many more cool products that I love and would want to learn and use, and the list is endless and time so limited!
I love google for what they give me for free! But I love Adobe even though I have to pay upfront for its products!!
Adobe today stands at cross-roads... I am not sure where it is going, but the vision is there and I hope that we succeed... Adobe is betting high on Flash and PDF which according to me is a weakness. Never let your competitors no what you are betting on, thats what i feel. But like other companies we too have seed projects that are coming up which might turn-around the company too... But the worry is about being traditional. Shying away from the server-side and not so appealing enterprise solutions, we have a tough task ahead.
It was a tough move, acquiring Macromedia, yet it was made possible and thanks to it many Macromedia products that might have perished saw light at the end of the tunnel. Coldfusion is one product that is gonna shine in the days to come...
Its really interesting the way Adobe has turned around. The print solutions, fonts, post-scripts, acrobat, photoshop and now slowly entering the enterprise market where collaboration is not just to do with the technology but with human addictions! Will Adobe understand what this market demands, the way Adobe got it right with Acrobat and Photoshop... To grow fast, we will need to look for new markets where we can be market leaders.
With the dawn of a new era, there emerged Google, a company that has made a niche out of the enterprise segment capturing the search market. Now the social networking sites are in the news. With their hands on huge human traffic capturing their minute actions they are the most talked about. With networking companies finding superior technology providing huge unlimited network access across the globe, the world has truly become a web! There is a lot of hype around the social networking sites but personally I feel they are limited in growth and with stiff competition many will phase out. Many new technologies are emerging which are far more complex than social networking sites would soon change the way we look at software.
Yet for the time being the challenge would be to learn to be safe from the traps we have hatched for ourselves in this "web world". Security would be the buzz word in the days ahead. Adobe is no more a company that deals with "only Art"! How Adobe paints the needs of this new world will provide us answers to where it is heading to...
July 29, 2007
Inside the Hospital
Life and Death hangs in the balance. You get a lot of questions. Your mind is overwhelmed with sadness, cause no matter what, you realize that we are mortals and the people we love and care for will not remain with us forever.
For a certain period of time I never got such thoughts as my life was drowned in all the comforts of life. What happens here at the hospital is just amazing and I felt what we do everyday is nothing compared to what happens here. I wondered if I was spending time, precious time in the best way possible...
I still have doubts about God, but for an instance I felt the Doctor who had carried out an operation was God. This perception may not seem real but the emotions that were running high with in the family members of the patient made it look that way. I then felt, really felt, what it means to be a doctor and what it is to save a life. The Doctor was so humble, and totally composed though only he knew the grievous situation. Its incredible how they are able to work so hard with a smile.
We humans are blessed with intelligence and it is special cause our intelligence comes with emotions. I wonder what the world would have been if we didn't have emotions. I guess we wouldn't have lasted long on this planet!
To me it was one special day, to be looking at all those people at work in the hospital. Many of the doctors, nurse and attenders who work here face difficult situations everyday and their work is daunting. Yet, they treat the patients with care, affection no matter what!
I had a chance to be a doctor, but those days when I was in my teens I was always looking at those easy go lucky software engineers, which is what I am today. Though I am doing fine, I would really say, I would have been better off as a Doctor... but now its just one of those things that I wanted to be, I can't be... Life goes on...
For a certain period of time I never got such thoughts as my life was drowned in all the comforts of life. What happens here at the hospital is just amazing and I felt what we do everyday is nothing compared to what happens here. I wondered if I was spending time, precious time in the best way possible...
I still have doubts about God, but for an instance I felt the Doctor who had carried out an operation was God. This perception may not seem real but the emotions that were running high with in the family members of the patient made it look that way. I then felt, really felt, what it means to be a doctor and what it is to save a life. The Doctor was so humble, and totally composed though only he knew the grievous situation. Its incredible how they are able to work so hard with a smile.
We humans are blessed with intelligence and it is special cause our intelligence comes with emotions. I wonder what the world would have been if we didn't have emotions. I guess we wouldn't have lasted long on this planet!
To me it was one special day, to be looking at all those people at work in the hospital. Many of the doctors, nurse and attenders who work here face difficult situations everyday and their work is daunting. Yet, they treat the patients with care, affection no matter what!
I had a chance to be a doctor, but those days when I was in my teens I was always looking at those easy go lucky software engineers, which is what I am today. Though I am doing fine, I would really say, I would have been better off as a Doctor... but now its just one of those things that I wanted to be, I can't be... Life goes on...
July 8, 2007
Matsyaa
Here is how I came up with the name for my blogspot (matsyaa). In Sanskrit/Kannada Matsya means Fish. (Didn't find matsya and hence matsyaa). Hope the extra "a" gives my blog a better future ;)
When I was about 15 years old I came across a book on Sun Signs by Linda Goodman. Since then I truly believed that my characteristics were true to a Piscean and have liked the idea of having characteristics of a fish :) But now I don't follow any of it like before. Today while I was googling for a name to christen my blog with, reading so many things on the web really made my mind run away from the actual thing I had set forth with. I came across Kuvempu's website and then Sanskrit and then I thought I should become like Kuvempu and after going through some of Kuvempu's work I felt its extremely stupid of me to even think that I could become as great as Kuvempu. He's one of the greatest writers of all time. Meanwhile I was thinking I should learn Sanskrit the Mother of all Indian languages :), but then I realized how much a Piscean I am, dreaming all the time... My actual learning started when I entered my Engineering. Since then I am a semi-atheist, non-aligned to any single thought. Believer in "Nothing is Impossible" and so and so. I came across Steve Jobs Autobiography a year back. With the IPod and now the IPhone, he has refined and translated technology into art. He's my inspiration these days. This blog is a total concoction of Life as I see. As you can see from the above writing my thoughts are very varied and you can expect the same in the coming days. Hope I keep up with my writing and make this a meaningful Blog.
When I was about 15 years old I came across a book on Sun Signs by Linda Goodman. Since then I truly believed that my characteristics were true to a Piscean and have liked the idea of having characteristics of a fish :) But now I don't follow any of it like before. Today while I was googling for a name to christen my blog with, reading so many things on the web really made my mind run away from the actual thing I had set forth with. I came across Kuvempu's website and then Sanskrit and then I thought I should become like Kuvempu and after going through some of Kuvempu's work I felt its extremely stupid of me to even think that I could become as great as Kuvempu. He's one of the greatest writers of all time. Meanwhile I was thinking I should learn Sanskrit the Mother of all Indian languages :), but then I realized how much a Piscean I am, dreaming all the time... My actual learning started when I entered my Engineering. Since then I am a semi-atheist, non-aligned to any single thought. Believer in "Nothing is Impossible" and so and so. I came across Steve Jobs Autobiography a year back. With the IPod and now the IPhone, he has refined and translated technology into art. He's my inspiration these days. This blog is a total concoction of Life as I see. As you can see from the above writing my thoughts are very varied and you can expect the same in the coming days. Hope I keep up with my writing and make this a meaningful Blog.
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