Software procurement requires some understanding on the type of software to be purchased. Broadly we can classify softwares to be of 4 types. Stand alone applications, Client server applications, Web applications and the latest SaAS. Knowing how each type functions is very critical for procurement decision. More important is to know if the software has the capability to be upgraded from one type to another.

Lets say you have a requirement for a stand alone software now, you go ahead buying it. It works on one system and all is well. Six months down the line you realize you have to have the software working on more than one system. What then? If you are lucky and if the software has the capability to be client-server application, you can enhance it and it works fine on all your systems. But if the software cannot work on multiple systems, does not have a client server version, what then? You have two choices - dump the software get a new one or just live with it.

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The entire world is now looking at the BRIC countries. And Asia is home to India and China, two of the dynamic BRIC economies. IT spending will expand dramatically, with a market wide compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% over the same period, or 80% growth over the market size in 2005. So lets make it happen.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org BRIC BRIC or BRICs are terms used in economics to refer to the combination of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The BRIC thesis[6] (defended in the paper Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050) recognizes that Brazil, Russia, India and China[7] have changed their political systems to embrace global capitalism. Goldman Sachs predicts China and India, respectively, to be the dominant global suppliers of manufactured goods and services while Brazil and Russia would become similarly dominant as suppliers of raw materials. Cooperation is thus hypothesized to be a logical next step among the BRICs because Brazil and Russia together form the logical commodity suppliers to India and China. According to the study, India has the potential to grow the fastest among the four BRIC countries over the next 30 to 50 years. A major reason for this is that the decline in working age population will happen later for India and Brazil than for Russia and China.

Trust you must have read our previous posts on issues with yahoo mail ids. We are now close of 20 days since we first raised hell. We have received, finally, a mail from yahoo informing us that “the status of our domain has been altered in their database”. Yet “they cannot assure that all mails will be delivered to the users” but “we can get in touch with the users and ask them to approach Yahoo to deliver the mails from our domain into the mail box” Makes sense? Not to us.

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Its now 6 days since we first wrote to yahoo on our bounced mails. Let’s talk ‘my dilemma’. We have close to 5000 users on iPOTT with yahoo ids. The ids are with us as they have registered as a ‘Promoter’ or ‘Buyer’ or they have subscribed for our Softnews letters. Today, we are not able to send out even our new year wishes to our registered users.

Yahoo has been very nice to send auto responses to every mail of ours. We have provided all possible details as evidence to claim that our mails are only opt-in mails. We are asked more and more information, when in-spite of providing; we don’t foresee any solution in near future. Come to think of it, the questions which are being asked? Take a look at one of the mails below:

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This is a must read if you have Yahoo mail ids or if you send mails to Yahoo ids.

Do you have friends with yahoo ids? Is your company using Yahoo ids to receive messages? Are you sending mails to yahoo ids? If you answer ‘Yes’ to a single question then don’t miss the information below.

Of late Yahoo! Mail has become more aggressive in its acceptance of SMTP connections and denies connections with error message “421 Message temporarily deferred.”

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