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GoogleDec21998, originally uploaded by Nuwan Weerasinghe.

Yesterday was Google’s 8th bithday.8 years is a short period of time for any other company, but IT. Information technology is such a rapid industry that innovations are sometimes daily if not weekly. So, it’s quite understandable that 8 years is a long time. what’s more interesting is to see the growth of google from a ‘Search Provider’ to an ‘Industry Innovator’.Microsoft and Bill Gates provides ample proof to this when they accept that Google is a ‘tough competitor’ for them. Google has the right vision when their efforts are predominantly on the internet.
The platform of choice for the next two decades atleast would be the NET. There fore its quite natural for Microsoft which is also a great company, to feel the heat at the market place with it’s dominance on the ‘traditional’ desktop.

Microsoft is more or less forced to accept this new technological reality, that in the ever increasing Cyberspace little matters whether you are on Windows or Linux. In this internet age Google played a huge role in making the platform redundant. Google forced this issue to such an extent that Microsoft is now almost ‘LIVE’……………

It is an Enthralling battle between these two IT heavy weights and we are witnessing and reaping the benefits of it.

I will also post this screen shot of Google search as seen on December 1998 when it was a beta.

Its well known all over the world regarding the security implications of the 9/11 incident. Tighter airport security is one such example.The IT dimension of this incident had far reaching consequences on our perceptions and preconceptions on areas like business continuity and governance.

We are now living in a world where disaster recovery, business continuity, governance, and systems security are hitting the headlines. These are no more seen as options but manadtory. Irrespective of their size, all organizations in the post 9/11 world are seen vulnerable to any man made or natural calamity. We also witness the active participation of governments and legislature in ensuring that the public as a whole and shareholders of organisations will not be affected by sudden collapses of businesses.

This trend is here to stay…………

It has been almost 2 weeks since i joined KPMG and my first assignment is going to be reviewing a System done using .NET and SQL Server 2000.So this will give me an ideal start into my new career since I have a fairly good idea what i will be up against. Any way each new system that comes under my review will be new and hopefully interesting.

Also yesterday was the 5th Annivesary of the brutal September 11th attacks in New York and Washington. But still the memories are fresh…….and vivid. Hope nothing like that never happens any where to any one.