From Our Chief Architect
In his role as Chief Architect, Rajesh drives development of strategy, implementation and operations for technology infrastructure for organizations. His leadership allows the team to create plans and develop options to meet technical and strategic business objectives. His expertise seamlessly allows him to create unmatched products that are aligned successfully with business goals. Over and above designing, implementing and maintaining test and production environments, he has also designed and implemented services and object models for each underlying business. Rajesh is truly an asset as he has a great temperament and his ability to zip effortlessly through painful tasks makes him invaluable to the team. He has a knack for new languages, frameworks and is in love with Linux and open source. Rajesh is an engineering graduate from Central India’s Top Engineering Institute, NIT Bhopal.
His Thoughts ….

…… On upcoming technologies

Amicus always looks to work with new projects that can deliver value and reap benefits for the clients. In the coming year, our focus is to deliver more solutions based on HTML5, CSS3, iOS5 and Android platorms. Besides these, our association with enterprise content management solutions like Teamsite and Sitecore will continue for fostering excellent relationships with our corporate clients.

…… On Open Source technologies

Open Source platforms are shaping up the web and mobile technologies fast. They are rapidly increasing penetration. Take Android. It has shown a phenomenonal growth in past few years. So have open source web platforms like Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress. It is exciting to deliver solutions using them as it brings great ROI to organizations.

…… On how Open Source is impacting enterprises

Streamlining tasks is important in every organization. This not only helps in cost efficiency but also helps in producing a better output. When organizations are looking for cost effective ways for streamlining tasks, open source solutions can come in handy. One particular area that may heavily use the technology of OSS in the near future is where there are number of proprietary products with multiple interfaces that do not work well together. The advantage of using OSS is that it can seamlessly be integrated into the existing enterprise environment for different applications. With these, a set of functions are pre done for the company like: contributed plugins, modules and drivers.

…… On technology forecast for 2012

I am certainly not waiting for the 'doomsday' but for:
- Browser market share shake up ... existing players to watch - Chrome and Firefox
- Video content shows increase in adoption
- Google Android coming close to Apple iOS (though not so close)
- Open Source Solutions getting more mature and creating further inroads in enterprise
market