New submitter NewYork writes with this chestnut from an article about the role of age in the high-tech workplace: 'The shelf life of a software engineer today is no more than that of a cricketer — about 15 years,' says V R Ferose, MD of German software major SAP's India R&D Labs that has over 4,500 employees . 'The 20-year-old guys provide me more value than the 35-year-olds do.'" The article features similar sentiments from Mukund Mohan, CEO of Microsoft's India-based startup initiative.
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Now you can run your company from Starbucks. Amazon's A.W.S. and SAP join forces to offer lots of corporate software, from H.R. and customer management to analytics, via the cloud. It's part of the steady, and increasingly powerful, ratcheting up of services from cloud computing providers.
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