Tuesday 13th September, 2005.

 

For those who are wondering who is Brad, He is Brad Murdoch, the VP of Operations and Services, JBoss Inc. He is responsible for making sure that customers are happy and we are happy – yeah, all the services and operations of JBoss worldwide are under him!

 

Today we were to go to Electronic city to meet one of top 5 SIs in India! The meeting was at 10:30 and I told him that I will pick him around 8:45. He asked me what 1-1/2 hours to travel 20 KM? I said Brad, You will understand! He did! We were going through some “memorable” traffic and congestions and later Brad told me – “Incredible!”

 

We had a great discussion with the team that brings in new technologies to the core mass and they told us they have 12,000 developers in that campus and are adding one more building and will eventually house 20,000! Of these there are more than 3000 Java/J2EE developers! They have COEs for each technology area, and even have their own Prometric test center!

 

Later I took Brad to Nandini for Lunch! Spicy Andra food! Even I cannot handle and Brad did! Brad you are great! Juha told me that the spiciest thing in Finland was “salt”! Juha, wanna a taste of Spicy food?

 

Later in the day, we traveled to ITPL to meet one of the largest SIs in India! I started my career in a company which finally merged with this one! We met one of the center heads and his team! The meeting went excellent! I came to know we share some common ex-colleges and friends!

PS: Brad had a real taste of Bangalore driving and the way our drivers weave through the traffic that he told me that he will never ever sit on the driver side passenger seat and will only sit on the back seat!