Are product firms being neglected by Nasscom yet again?

There are souring issues the products firms are facing from the industry lobby in past few months.

Recent one is the that no products companies in the new elected 18 member executive council of Nasscom. According to media reports, all 18 members are from software service firms, product makers say their interests not a key focus area of the lobby group.

Nasscom has picked the 18 members of its executive council, all of them from domestic and international software services companies and none from product makers, which experts argue is likely to reinforce the latter's contention that their interests are not a key focus area for the lobby group.

Rishad Premji, son of Wipro Ltd's billionaire founder and chairman Azim Premji, Microsoft India chairman Bhaskar Pramanik, and Mindtree Ltd chief executive Krishnakumar Natarajan were among the industry executives elected to Nasscom's highest decision-making body, in their email
communication to media.

The issue of no product company's memebership in the exec copuncil will further fuel the on going turmoil in the Industry lobby among product firms of their negligence.

In February, some 30 software product firms, including accounting software maker Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd, along with several product veterans such as former head of Yahoo Inc.'s research and development facility Sharad Sharma and mobile advertising firm InMobi founder Naveen Tewari, formed a separate forum called the Indian Software Product Industry Round Table, or iSpirt.