R ar e ly A va i la b le P ho t os -Antique Collection

1) Tim Berners Lee -- Founder of the World Wide Web




2) Picture taken when microsoft was started





3) Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers.He was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn't get any better name for his new company.So one day he told to the staff: "If I'll not get better name by 5 o'clcok today, our company's name will be anything he likes..." so at 5 o'clcok nobody comeup with better name, and he was eating APPLE that time...so he keep the name of the company 'Apple Computers'




4) Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard(R) of HP.Behind them in the picture is the famous HP Garage. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.And the winner was NOT Bill... the winner was Dave.





5) Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX.Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)He later called it C.



6) Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin(R), founders of Google.Google was originally named 'Googol'. After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor...they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !...So they kept name as GOOGLE




7) Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel.Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'. But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain...So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics... INTEL

8) Andreas Bechtolsheim , Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod Khosla of SUN(StanfordUniversity Network) MicroSystems. Founded by four StanfordUniversity buddies.Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;Vinod Khosla recruited him;Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it;and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer... SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network .

9) Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).

He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free + freak + x).His friend Ari Lemmk encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.Linus like that directory name and he kept the name of his new OS to LINUX...

10) Picture taken when INFY was started. This picture was found in the album of the clerk who took this picture... The picture was with that clerk only because it was his birthday and he just told everyone to stand together at one place to take a pic.He borrow a camera from his friend and as he can not tell any of his boss to take pic, so he took pic by himself... even it was his birthday.

INFOSYS SAGA-JOURNEY OF NARAYANA MURTHY

The Infosys saga
Infosys Technologies is one Indian company that has changed the way the world looks at India. It is an emblem of India's supremacy in information technology. But how much do you know about India's favourite companyInfosys wasn't N R Narayana Murthy's first entrepreneurial venture. It was actually a company named Softronics, which Murthy founded in 1976 in Pune. It was an IT consulting firm. He shut it after a while and took up a job at Patni Computer Services as the head of its software business.Narayana Murthy was born on August 29, 1946. One of the eight children born to a physics teacher in southern India, he hailed from an average middle-class family. He studied electrical engineering and obtained a master's degree in 1969. After his studies, he worked in the computer department of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His first real job overseas was in 1971 when he took up employment with SESA in Paris. He worked with a team to design a real time operating system for handling air cargo for the Charles de Gaulle airport. In 1974, at the age of 26, confident that he had gained a lot of insight into the world around him, he decided to return to India.Nadathur Sarangapani Raghavan, or NSR, was employee Number One at Infosys. The oldest amongst the founders, a passable singer and a great cook, NSR was the first person Narayana Murthy spoke to about founding Infosys. Infosys was born with NSR's house in Matunga as its registered office. NSR, now retired, continues to be a Trustee of the Infosys Foundation. Murthy himself was employee Number Four. Today Infosys has over 53,000 employees. Infosys was originally founded by seven people, although only six of them are now with Infosys. Ashok Arora, the seventh founder, quit Infosys in 1989 before the company went public as it was going through tough times. Arora later moved to the United States to work with a consulting firm. The six other original founders are N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal and K Dinesh. Sharad Hegde was Infosys' first non-founder employee. Like Murthy and Nilekani, he too was a former Patni employee and Infosys' tech-guru in its early years. He left Infosys a few years ago and is planning to set up a golf resort near Bangalore. His wife, Anu, who left the company in the early 1990s, was an expert in quality and processes. The two met in Infosys and were Infosys' first 'office romance,'.

Bat Shoes -know about

Bata Shoes is 112 years old
Bata Shoes is headquarted at Lausanne, Switzerland. A family-owned shoe company, it now operates in 68 countries. It serves 1 million customers per day and employs more than 40,000 people. It has production facilities across 26 countries. The company has sold 14 billion pairs of shoes so far.
Tomas Bata founded the company in 1894 in Zlin in the Czech Republic. Tomas Bata's family had been cobblers for generations so it was only natural for him to open a shoe company. Tomas had a good sense of social consciousness, was keen on employee welfare and social life. He helped modernise his hometown providing employment and housing facilities to his employees. He also became the mayor of Zlin. In 1932, Tomas Bata died in a plane crash and his step-brother Jan Antonin Bata became the company head. Under his leadership, the company grew and spread throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and North Africa
Thomas G Bata, grandson of Tomas Bata took over the company in 2002. The company then formed a new international structure to focus on the business in each region, especially in sourcing and product development. Bata opened innovation centres around the world to focus on making more comfortable shoes in new designs. In 2004, Bata forayed in China by opening the Bata procurement centre in Guanzhou and a distribution partnership for Bata retail stores.

The Bata Shoe Museum is located in Toronto, Canada. Founded by the Bata family, in 1995 it is dedicated to the history of footwear. The five-storey, 39,000 square foot building, has shoes from the private collection of Sonja Bata, wife of Thomas J Bata. Designed by Raymond Moriyama, the museum has a collection of over 10,000 shoes. From Chinese bound foot shoes and ancient Egyptian sandals, it has shoes from the 1500s. This unique museum also has on display some of the most glamorous designs.
Bata India is India's biggest manufacturer and marketer of footwear. Bata set up its first factory in Konnagar in 1931, which was later shifted to Batanagar. Incorporated as Bata Shoe Company Pvt Ltd in 1931, the company went public in 1973 and changed its name to Bata India Ltd. It has five factories in India--Batanagar, West Bengal (1936), Bataganj, Bihar (1942), Faridabad, Haryana (1951), Peenya, Karnataka (1988), Hosur, Tamil Nadu (1994). Bata is known for quality leather, rubber, canvas and PVC shoes in wide-ranging designs and styles at affordable prices. Bata India has two tanneries at Batanagar and at Mokamehghat (Bihar), second largest in Asia.