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Ray Ozzie announces the inaguration of Live Labs in his blog posting..

SOA Web Services comes to Hollywood!

Software and services exports from India reached $17.2 bln in fiscal 2005 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- India's software and services exports were $17.2 bln in the fiscal year ended March 31 in 2005, up by 34.5% from the previous year, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies. BPO services industry could be bringing in $60 bln by the year 2010, growing at over 25% a year.

My business buddy in India - Ashok Hingorani (CEO CompuTact) is well-mentioned in this article regarding communications and collaboration tools.

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The famous Ray Ozzie memo is now out on the web -

Ray Ozzie has  a new version to his weblog site (frequented by Groove folks & users) to a v3 at MSN Spaces. Very interesting reading!