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About Every Thing 2.0

My good friend Jitendra of the Karma Web managed to instill enough good sense in me to get started blogging. So here I am with Every Thing 2.0. The name is part sarcasm about how we are always obsessed with things 2.0 and part my obsession with next generation of software applications. As I have grown older (and moved from Engineering to Product Management), I have found the number and intensity of my opinions going down; if the trend continues, I will soon be an opinion less middle-of-the-road pragmatist. Before that doomsday happens, let me capture some of my opinions in this blog.

About Manoj Das

Wikipedia says

Manoj Das or Manok Das (1934- ) is an Indian award-winning writer in Oriya and English.

Unfortunately, I am not that Manoj Das. I am a more regular guy; on the positive side, not as old either.

I did my BS in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur (1992). Then I spent number of years working in the Electronic Design Automation industry primarily focused on logic synthesis for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at Exemplar Logic/Mentor Graphics.

Then I did my MBA from the Haas School of Berkeley and upon completion, joined Siebel.

At Siebel, I was very fortunate and worked on two of Siebel’s three big initiatives – Universal Application Network and Nexus (the third one was Analytics). I have been involved in the BPM space from that time. First, at Universal Application Network I worked on creating a platform for end-to-end cross application processes. If any vendor was in business around that time, I am pretty sure I have evaluated them. Next, at Nexus I got to work on the next generation application platform for Siebel; I was responsible for enabling process-centric (BPM), event-driven (Business Events), agile (Business Rules) applications.

Proving wrong all my theories on how IBM and Microsoft needed Siebel as an independent entity, we got acquired. I have continued with Oracle, moving on to the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) product management team. At Oracle, I focus on Business Processes and Business Rules.

I Do Not Speak For Oracle

Any opinions mentioned in this blog are my personal opinions and not Oracle’s opinions. I guess you already know that you can not hold Oracle accountable for any thing I say or do not say here.