On
the exit of IBM in 1977
Here was an international company with very good standards on whatever it
did. Not only in customer care but also in societal and employee care, so that
was missing after the exit. But in a way it was good because it propelled some
of our own homegrown companies like DCM, Dataproducts, HCL and ORG to get onto
the computer bandwagon.
On the future of the PC
The PC will continue to be very powerful for good or bad reasons. The bad
reasons: nobody compromises in software now so you need more and more memory to
load even simple software. The competition will come from a lot of the handheld
devices and various other appliances that’ll be Web-enabled, which will
automatically do various tasks for people. But the amount of data being
processed by corporations will still require a PC and servers.