Opinions
Should tech professionals specialise?
For any technology professional, one brow-crinkling choice that needs to be made is whether to become an expert in a particular field or stand the risk of being labelled a ‘jack-of-all-trades’. While generalists have the advantage of being cross-functionally adaptable to various tasks, an expert’s opinion is highly regarded due to his strong domain knowledge. Fecacio Hanafi shares with you the advantages and disadvantages of both sides

Interview
“Most banks today do not have a holistic view of the customer”
As banks increasingly embrace new technologies, the need of the hour is to integrate and IT-enable their different delivery channels. Singapore-based CR2 is now making a foray into the Indian banking sector with solutions for this purpose. Ron Downey, joint CEO, CR2 speaks about the company’s products and details on its plans for India with Chitra Padmanabhan

Interview
“Royalty-free open source code will drive the adoption of Linux in embedded systems”
Lineo provides embedded systems and real-time solutions covering operating system software, host development environments, vertical stack applications and professional services. Ishrat Hakim, senior vice president, Sales and Services, Lineo, was in India to assess the progress made by the Indian operations in its first three months here. He spoke to Akhtar Pasha about the successful adoption of Linux in the embedded space