Dear all,
The initiative discussed was introduced during Hemant's tenure, and came into
full circle in the next batch. So, I didn't know the details of this initiative
before it evolved on this group.
Over the last 24 hours, I spoke with Bhatia Sir, Aditya, Abhishek and Hemant to
understand the scenario. From what I could gather from the discussions, it
seems that CSI-NSIT is indeed charging much less than what it should charge.
It seems marketing and distribution costs for Windows costs 10 times higher.
Sure, that might be the case. Reminds me of a close friend, Mary Lou Jepsen
from Pixel Qi. She once told me an interesting insight on the sales of laptops.
She said that the marketing and distribution costs of any normal laptop
accounts for 65-70% of the total costs associated with it. Display device
accounted for less than 25% was an interesting fact I realized from that
discussion.
And, Microsoft is very happy that CSI-NSIT are helping them reduce the
distribution of pirated versions - a major investment goes in that direction.
So, in my humble opinion, I think that the board might want to scale up the
fees to Rs. 400 or Rs. 500 considering the amount of energy put up by second
year executive board members in the middle of end sems. End sems are very
important, guys. You should get into the ghissu mode now.
On a separate note, I found the style of discussions very interesting. Reminds
me of the storyline of "Blood Diamond".
Craig Mundie, hats off to you, friend. You are very smart business guy
indeed.Good luck with Windows 7. Your product has already received enough
publicity on CSI yahoo group :-)
Regards,
Manu
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