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MT
teacher
At the outset, let me congratulate you for the realistic write-up
on Medical Transcription (IT People December 24, 2001). As
suggested in the article, in keeping with the need to improve
drastically the accuracy in medical transcription, I have
developed a special lecture on American Pharmacology. I have
trained over 100 students in all subjects of medical transcription
and believe the course is helpful for both trained and as
well as trainee medical transcriptionists. Those interested
can contact me at sureshsukheja@rediffmail.com.
Suresh Sukheja
Pune
Only
products
The Indian IT industry has for a long time now hung on to
the services rope in an effort to move up the value chain.
I believe it is high time we moved into product development.
Our IT industry, one thinks, suffers from a serious confidence
problem. If we are to prove our prowess in this sector and
establish our credentials as the IT superpower we claim to
be, we have to move towards products, which I reiterate our
home-grown companies are capable of doing, but lack the fire
in their belly to do so.
Another aspect of this game that I wish to bring to light
is the fact that while reams have been written about the i-flex’s
and other biggies in the products space, there are scores
of lesser companies which have developed novel products which
for some reason do not get the kind of coverage they deserve.
I do hope you do something to set right this discrepancy.
Aziz Khan
Mumbai
Crystal
gazing
As the year draws to a close, one indispensable column in
most publications is predictions and charting out course for
the future. However, as experience tells us, this very rarely
actually moves in the direction pointed out. Whoever thought
that the Indian IT industry would, after going through one
of its worst phases, seek to make a killing out of disaster
management solutions post 9/11? I for one did not. The Indian
software sector has definitely come of age and even though
most predicted the end of the IT boom as we know it, the year
gone by shows that the IT industry has grown more mature and
can now pull through some of the most difficult situations.
Going forward, as predicted, India does have the capacity
to make it to the next league, but we have to shed the very
Indian ‘babu’ mindset if we are to do so. We have
to make things happen and not wait for things to happen to
us.
Suchita D’souza
Mumbai
The
end of the road for dot coms
2001 saw the end of the year for dot coms in line with Jason
Pontin’s predictions. During Nasscom, he again predicted
the end of the hype that the Indian IT industry and the impossibility
of achieving the $87 billion dream. As the year has gone by,
his predictions have proved to be on track again. I wonder
what will be his next take on the Indian IT scene. We can
only cross our fingers and wait.
Debashish Mohanty
Kolkata
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