Thursday February 15, 2007
Java’s contribution to Economy of India
what is GDP?
GDP (gross domestic product) is the primarily is an indicator used to gauge economy of a country. It is expressed in comparison to the previous quarter/year.
Change in GDP has a significant effect on the stock market. Infact negative GDP growth is one of the factor economists use to identify recession in an economy.
Java’s impact to India’s GDP
India already have over a million IT professionals. IT and ITeS sectors being major contributors to India's GDP. Java alone has an impressive contribution of 2.1% to India’s GDP.
According to a story ran by "Times of India" (one of the leading newspaper in India), Indian Java economy accounts for 10-15% of the world's Java economy.
Thanx to Joe, I managed to get hold of research paper by professors at IIM-Ahemdabad.
The paper seeks to shed light on Java’s impact on India’s economy. As per the research with some relaxations and approximations about the unquantifiable components, Java’s share to Indian economy varies between 2.1% - 2.5% of the Indian GDP.
Posted by prats ( Feb 15 2007, 06:21:10 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [2]
Monday January 15, 2007
Fortress - Another feather in Sun's Opensource Cap...
"Goodbye Fortran, Hello Fortress" is what Sun is attempting at right now. Sun recently launched Fortress interpreter as open-source software. Tool intends to execute Fortress programs line by line and is designed to be a replacement for ages-old Fortran. Fortran was born nearly 50 years ago at IBM and is still going strong with high-performance computing tasks.
Most of Fortress implementation is released under very permissive BSD license.
Fortress interpreter requires Java 1.5 (or onwards) to run and Ant 1.6.5 (or onwards) to build.
Fortress will be of great significance for HPC Guys (high-performance computing) eg, Grid. With Fortress, Sun hopes to make life of programmers working with multicore processors easier. Language supports features not present in Fortran such as transactions, implicit parallel computation, powerful compiler optimizations etc.
Posted by prats ( Jan 15 2007, 12:51:48 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Thursday November 09, 2006
Completing 1 Year@SUN today.
Working with Sun Microsystem is undoubtedly the dream of everyone working in Java and I am no exception.
I still can't believe, how one day I got a call from Sun Microsystem in October last year. Though I was not looking for a change but I decided to go through the process so as to test myself. And finally when I was offered the job, It was too good to refuse. 
Exactly 1 year back on 9 November,2005, I joined Sun Microsystems and it has been a roller-coaster ride since then.
Reliving the past....
Looking back now, it feels like one of the most cherished and gratifying year of my life. It is one of the few companies that put so much of effort into both professional and personal development and let you script your own success stories.
Apart from working on cutting-edge technologies, I’ve been going places to present talks at various Colleges and universities, helping young ( sometimes not so young 
) developers discover and learn Java.
Sun truly believes in the value of relationships, and I feel lucky to be here where I can play cricket, football, bowling, Go-Carting, crack a joke with my manager and even my manager's manager.
A man who doesn't love his work & job is losing the best part of his perks.
To me, it’s about being creative,energized and enjoying your life@office — and it beats simply sitting at your desk all day.
I’m proud of the fact that Sun is one of the few companies in country to have a policy called 'Work from Home' (WFH), which lets you maintain right balance between your work commitments and personal life.
So far I have seen a layoff, a re-org, have worked with two wonderful managers and quite a few cool peers.
In this one year, I’ve grown as a person to where I am today and what an amazing journey it has been.
Posted by prats ( Nov 09 2006, 07:37:07 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [4]
Monday July 31, 2006
Hello World, Weblog
In computer world 'Hello World' has become synonym of first program, programmers write to test their skills on a newly learn language.
I have also been following the trend ever since I have entered in the world of programming. So here am I following the unwritten rule again. This is my first a.k.a 'Hello World' Web log.
I am Pratibha Malhotra (fondly called 'Prats' by my friends), working at Sun Microsystem, India.
Posted by prats ( Jul 31 2006, 06:39:20 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]
This is a personal weblog, I do not speak for my employer.
