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Sramana Mitra wonders what Jonathan Schwartz is thinking after being elevated to the hot seat at Sun:

SUN, like Apple, has made its mark as a vertically integrated computer company with proprietary computer hardware and operating system. However, unlike Apple, the importance of the computer business has become questionable. The significance of the OS is questionable. The relevance of the chip business is definitely questionable.

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I was reading a Fortune Magazine article on how Ray Ozzie is the vanguard of Microsoft’s new Internet Services strategy. It struck me that Microsoft realizes that we’re moving away from the desktop to the “webtop” paradigm, where your data resides in the “cloud” of the Internet, and that we’re moving towards fundamentally new services that leverage the power of the Web. In other words, MS seems to “get” the Internet of the future.

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It’s expensive:
I use the Airtel GPRS service very heavily. Because in Pune, it’s unlimited (in terms of volume and time) as long as I pay Rs. 150 per month. I use it for checking email, catching up on blogs, and using it as a Bluetooth modem for my Thinkpad so I can dial into my corporate network. It’s cheap, I’m connected, and I’m happy.

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Here are the results of a search on the Indian Express’ website for the columnist Saubhik Chakrabarti. Google returns Results 1 to 7 of. errr, just 5. Umm..

Here’s a report on CNN Money, on the way Bill Gates deals with information. The article does provide a rare glimpse into Gates’ office, but you come away with the feeling that this kind of article ought to have appeared on a technology website, like ZDNet, maybe - and ought to have been more in-depth. Can someone out there do an interview with Gates on this specific topic - Personal Information Management?

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