Well, after waiting for years, the new Infosys Mangalore development center is ready for business. Its named Nethra after the river Nethravathi which is the lifeline of mangalore (and its pretty close to the river too!!) .
Unofficially, the center started operations on 15th October, with 83 people on-board!
When phase 1 is fully ready - it would accommodate upto 3200 people. And since its in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), it means that certain percent of the people working there must be freshly recruited! Which is a great news to the entire Dakshina Kannada region. Phase 2 and 3 would bring in more growth!
This has been a much awaited project. Have been hearing about it even before I joined Infosys in 2002!
Kudos to everyone involved. An official inauguration ceremony is planned sometime in the coming months!
Will try to post more pictures as soon as I get them!
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October 26th, 2007 at 03:23pm
Its quite some time since I wrote something over here. It has been a very hectic and happening week so far. At office, we had the synergy finale last Sunday, the details of which I had posted up over here. On Monday, we had christmas celebrations in the office. Was fun! :). And then on Tuesday, there was a performance by the in-house musical band of mInfosys called Yantra. I could not stay for the entire show, which went for over 2.5 hours., but I did listen a couple of songs. Its was really a great performance. Even though I could not be *at* the show, I could hear the music/songs at my work place.
My wife is doing fine and is now settled down in Houston. The Canon Powershot A610 rocks. The quality of image is real good. We are now waiting for the rechargeable batteries and charger which I bought over eBay. Digi-cams are power hungry devices. They need batters with more power. So, Its always better to get batteries with higher mAh rating. mAh of a battery is similar to Stamina. The higher, the better. I have managed to get hold of 8 AA sized 2500 mAh NiMH rechargeable batteries and a 1 hour fast charger for around $29 (including shipping) over eBay. Don’t know if is a nice deal. But it sounded reasonable.
On the work front, lots of work. We are working on providing a single sign on feature (provided by siteminder/identiyminder) for windows sharepoint portal. And this kind of requires us to write a ISAPI filter for IIS. We are currently working on writing this ISAPI filter (which does custom authentication). If you are familiar with ISAPI programming, get back to me!
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December 23rd, 2005 at 03:04pm
Update (13-Apr-2007): Apparently, I heard recently that they have changed the design - due to the nature of the soil at the construction area. I think it won’t be a inverted pyramid as shown below.
OK. This one is for real, unlike the major HOAX forward mail that was floating around a couple of months back.
The real proposed Design of the new Infosys Campus at Mangalore looks as shown below:
Source : http://www.hafeezcontractor.com
Will post more pictures if I get a chance!
You can find designs of other proposed Infosys buildings at the Hafeez Contractor’s website.
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November 11th, 2005 at 12:41pm
Woooosh… Had a Rain dance in our office today as a part of TGIF series..
mInfy* rocks!
The dance was in our amphi-theater area and started at around 6.45 PM, and as usual, it did not rain much today. But nothing to worry about. As usual, we had tons of sprinklers etc and it was more than raining.. and more importantly, the people!. mInfoscions .. you rock!.
Did not click any snaps … mainly bcoz my camera is NOT water proof…. :)
*mInfy -> mInfosys -> Mangalore Infosys.
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July 15th, 2005 at 10:58pm
Update (Nov 11, 2005): Check out the Real Design of the Proposed Infy Campus at Mangalore.
I work for Infosys, mangalore and this mail recently bumped into my mail box about the design of new Infosys campus in mangalore, with some really cool snapshots of the desgin.
All i can say is, the above pics are kind of fake and the mail is a pure HOAX. The snaps have nothing to do with Infosys or Infy Mangalore campus! :)
I am not sure who send out that mail, but that mail is making round all around the net !. Lot of people are googling for information on this, and they end up on my blog ! :).
Thats why this post!
Ok. So, for the real one : Check this link : http://www.voyager-ent.com/flash_index.asp. This something that is proposed in UAE!
Also, check this previous post of mine!
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June 9th, 2005 at 02:43pm
