Regarding the restructuring part, there's an old saying, don't try to fix something that isn't broken. And suppose even on whim if they decided to do major restructuring of their business, they won't be able to do it, remember they are publicly traded company.
1. All I am asking is for Infosys to set up a team to design an operating system software since the company is a software company. Am I being unreasonable ?
2. SpaceX isn't a publicly traded company because it doesn't want to leave its design and development to the whims of the stock markets. IIRC some ten years ago Elon Musk was asked "What is your business model for Mars ?" He said there was none. I think he meant for the moment.
No there isn't; if there was there would be many more companies designing OS's.
There are not more companies because of the intellectual capability and continued thought and development effort needed. Infosys simply doesn't have that.
There core competence is in application support and system development for BFSI. why would they get into a business that has no business case to begin with. Again a Billion dollar company doesn't need your validation.
So what was the "business case" for Microsoft, QNX Software Systems Limited, Green Hills Software etc ?
A billion dollar company but a bunch of arrogant nincompoops.
And did Elon Musk need validation from richer, bigger organizations like Boeing and NASA for him to start SpaceX at a smaller level ?
And? you have received billions in venture capital because of your breakthrough idea?
1. Why should OS development need billions ? The initial versions of QNX OS were written by two people in a small, not-so-rich company in the early 1980s who thought that the microkernel OS architecture is required to be implemented in the commercial world from the academic research world, so they developed QNX OS ( initially called QUNIX ). QNX was the first commercial microkernel OS in the world. I myself have written a very simple, microkernel-inspired, experimental OS some years ago and all it took me was learning x86 Assembly language from a book, learning it on a Windows computer and developing it using tools on Linux OS using C and Assembly. All done within the confines of my bedroom. And this led me to join up a year later with a financing partner who set up an office to commercially develop the OS further. But the company closed down some months later for non-technological reasons.
2. Even for microprocessor development the main spending is the the initial intellectual effort in designing the instruction set and other things. Further development and prototyping requires an FPGA board which costs about a couple of lakhs and requires a few hardware engineers. Why should this take billions ?
VC funding I hope to get but first there is the task of setting up at small level.
To boast we made a OS and a processor. Businesses are not run that way.
So what would Infosys be doing in five or ten years from now when computing is changed and if economic systems are changed ? Still be a subcontractee or do innovation ? I don't see what is the OP poster being so happy about such a non-necessary company.
I would like to sincerely apologise for wasting my time with you.
Cause it's useless.
Aren't you the one who told me about the hardware industry some months ago ?
1. Big Terms - Can you clarify
I was talking about Infosys not rejecting the high impression among Indian computer engineering graduates about the company.
2. Between Finacle is used in over 50 countries with clients like ICICI, SBI, ING...Not a total failed product.
Yes, it is not a failed product but it is also not something that can't be developed by other countries in the world. Nothing innovative. And like I said before I believe it cannot be used in a economic system where the interest system has been abolished.
3. Its a business entity looking to earn profits in their activities like any other companies in world. They are not bound to follow the dictate of anyone other than the share holders. So your, mine, our wish has no merits.
Well, SpaceX is not a publicly traded company yet wants to make profit and is quite innovative.
4. As its a profit earning entity so it will channelize its resource to those areas where they can earn the most, OS are in plenty in market and are having tough competition. A sensible company will always try to get in the areas where their is less competition to earn money.
I earlier spoke about DRDO declaring in 2010 that it will develop an indigenous, "futuristic" OS mainly for India's military, scientific and probably bureaucratic needs and that OS still not being developed by now in 2021. Doesn't Infosys have this market even if niche now ? It can design and develop this OS for the government. A big government contract is profitable.
5. Exceptions are always there, but in general an engineering student will have more intelligence/knowledge than a 10+.
An engineering student may know more facts than a 10th pass but may not necessarily have more intelligence and knowledge than then 10th pass.
Why they will take a chance when they need quantity not quality
True.
no one from premier institutes join Infy.
I suppose those like from the IITs and co. will want to generally move to the West.
6. You haven't got my point. IBM is not a top 5 IT/ITES company anymore. But still they files more patients than all. It has a revenue of 77 B while Amazon has 386 B. So as a share holder I will always like company like Amazon and Amazon has not got any noble prize.
Well, the above comparison is not entirely proper. Amazon is a company that is useful globally. Infosys is not.
7. As you are a son of bank employee you must be knowing of banks. Example SBI, if you have to visit your half a day gone. It is a tradition which I have seen for last 15-20 years. But for Axis in opposite side of the road it takes hardly 15 min. Do you know why this is mixed in the DNA of SBI?
Well, I know for fact that SBI has also computerized its operations.
Another example BSNL, if your telephone wire is snapped you have to pay to bring it back. Even I was advised by a GM on to compromise as the person(s) who looks into it is with the union.
So that was your experience. With my house's BSNL landline the problem was attended duly and next day my area's telephone exchange called us up to inquire if the problem has been attended to. Also the technician who came told us that BSNL has contracted his company to attended to BSNL customers' problems.
My carrier started in a MFG company and then I sifted to Infosys on a consulting role. Later I parted with them. People were sacked from these companies on certain parameters and I can confirm you the person who were sacked were not fit for the role they were employed. Even they were given a chance for an year to improve themselves which they couldn't. Actually they are provided a warning for two years to switch the jobs which they ignored, neither they improved their skills..
Each company has its own internal processes and requirements but my question in this thread is why this 40-year-old, rich and 200,000+ person staffed
software company hasn't been able to design an operating system
software. My question is the non-contribution of such a company to the computing world.
In fact changing a job in it is not very complex IMO.
I see.
en.wikipedia.org
