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It was a mixed experience at the Unconference made possible by Entrepreneur 27 , a group started by university students in Singapore after borrowing the concept which they experienced during their year long stint at Silicon Valley.

I am still recovering from the hangover of the event which actually did not serve alcohol! But the experience of the unconference itself was so alcoholic especially for me when I was amongst those energetic youngsters!!

5 questions you must ask your future boss

By Sunder Ramachandran

Originally published in Rediff.com - http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2007/feb/02boss.htm

'People don't leave organisations; they leave their bosses.' This is an old cliche. According to a survey by badbossology.com, almost 71 per cent of employees look for new jobs because of problems with their bosses. A recent Gallup survey of over 1,000,000 employees found that, if a company was losing good people, the biggest reason was their immediate supervisors.

Not sure if this gets posted as I am on a very weak connection restored today after being unable to access ITVidya for a couple of days after the internet connection in Singapore got disrupted due to under sea cable damage in Taiwan Quake.

Yes, for a moment it looked like we have gone back to medieval age! The quake might have spared the massive damage to human lives this time on boxing day. But it has definitely exposed the vulnerability of central systems in a increasingly distributed and globalized era of connectivity.

It was generally a hectic trip to Singapore and I found it to be quite satisfying. Samooha seems to have caught up attention there and a couple of larger implementations that will take off soon will get the platform further acceptance in the higher mid-segment of the enterprise while we continue to build a better "networked Business Operating System" for Small Enterprises.

Few things in life happen without much realization that they indeed have made an impact on us.

Until last year the concept of Samooha was faintly residing in the minds of Techies at Zudha. It all happened when they set off to write a Software component for an existing Open Source ERP. However, the experience gained from implementing ERP for small enterprises in India and the lessons learnt from User Maturity Level in emerging markets motivated them to target a much lower segment of the enterprise pyramid and then on Samooha was a thrilling endeavour.

The time has come for explaining the benefits of P2P beyond file sharing.

I would interprete P2P in many ways than just Peer-to-Peer. Person-to-Person, People-to-People, Point-to-Point, Professional-to-Professional, Poverty-to-Progress and so on.

P2P has immense benefits for the enterprise if handled with care and openness. Often P2P is misunderstood for File Sharing, File Swapping mostly related to audio and video files such as mp3 which usually culminates in violation of Digital Rights.

At a juncture where Free Software Foundation has begun a new campaign on DRM, Samooha an innovative offering from India that is focused on SME empowerment through Self Service Desktop Technology leveraged by Peer-to-Peer and Client Server technologies is being mistaken for P2P file sharing service which it is not.