I just returned from a visit to Hyderabad India.  As a result of the SeeBeyond acquisition, Sun now has a site there in addition to our site in Bangalore.  Nearly all of the folks there work in my organization.  So it is important to me to visit them on a regular basis.  This was my second trip there.

I will talk about the growth of Hyderabad later in this entry, but first let me talk about connectivity from end to end on my trip.  And when I say connectivity, in this case I mean wireless access to the internet!

• I of course have wireless in my house
• There was wireless at San Francisco International Airport
• There was wireless in one of my two Lufthansa flights - the legs to and from Frankfurt and Hyderabad
• There was wireless at the ITC Hotel Kakatiya Sheraton, the hotel where I stayed

This really means the only places that I did not have access were on the way to and from the airports and in my travels around the city of Hyderabad.  With the recent announcement of Google and Earthlink providing wireless in San Francisco, and the article that I read while in India that there will be wireless in what they call Hi Tech City, we are getting close.  Now I just need a battery that will last the whole trip or easy power in cars and airplanes (I know that with the right adaptors, I can get most of what I need today).

A just a bit more on Hyderabad.  This is a city that is really growing fast in the IT sector. While I was there on my first visit, the newspapers reported that Infosys had decided to build a site for 25,000 people.  This time I took a quick tour of what they call the Hi Tech City. There are some beautiful buildings there housing a large number well known high technology companies.  And there is a lot of room to grow.  I expect that this together with a pretty solid infrastructure will allow Hyderabad to continue to grow in importance.  I believe we are well situated at Sun with our main location being Bangalore, but also with sites in both Hyderabad and Pune.