For those of you who havent yet heard of Wyse, its the pioneer of a concept known at Thin computing, primarily based around a hardware device known as a thin client. Wyse today is a 600 million dollar plus company, represented locally by NC inc (National Computers), headed by Sami Askari. Im not going to go into details on thin clients, they are a field in their own, for those of you interested in the technology here is a good link to learn about them : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
Wyse and NC recently held a seminar in Karachi, with the ceo of Wyse John Kish as the main speaker. Saleem Rafiq, CIO of MCB also spoke. MCB is the largest customer for Wyse products in Pakistan.
Now to the point of the post 
. Just the fact that top management executives from the US IT industry are visiting Pakistan is a big deal, and this tells us that mature markets have started to look at us more and more as a location to do business. Mr Kish said that India was becoming expensive as an outsourcing destination (something we here love to hear) , and that Wyse is planning to use Pakistan as a support hub for its Thin clients installbase in the region, ie the Middle East and that they are looking to Pakistan as a destination for outsourcing software development. He would get a thumbs up from Clearcube, who has been doing this here for years. Clearcube, in alliance with Wyse, uses its thin clients as part of its desktop blade solutions.
Kudos for Wyse and NC for a great event! keep ‘em coming
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August 27th, 2006 at 2:17 am
As good as the news may sound, Wyse is s dying breed….
August 29th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Well, the visit of US based Company CEO and his interest in investing in Plakistan speaks for it self and these kind of oppertunities should be utilized to the maximum gain.
Coming back to the event I think it was few of the seminars that i have attended that have the right kind of audiance ….. the decision makesrs of Pakistan elite business who took interest in what Dr John Kish was saying and it was courages on part of MCB to stood up and share its achivemnets ( not a normal practise in our part of the world).
Technology Adoption award was another good thing about the event.
August 30th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Faisal, why do you say wyse is a dying breed?
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 am
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