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Free Laptops with Costly Giveaway Ceremonies: ProPakistani

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Free Laptops with Costly Giveaway Ceremonies: ProPakistani

Free Laptops with Costly Giveaway Ceremonies

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:00 PM PDT

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We appreciated Punjab Government when they first announced the free giveaway of 100,000 laptops to brightest of the students in the province.

We are also proud of Mr. Shahbaz Sharif for many other ventures he has endured lately, particularly for those catering the IT industry.

Having said this, we are yet to ascertain the need of significantly large amount of funds that are being wasted by Punjab Government (or by its departments) for the laptop giveaway ceremonies; which are being held in almost every district of the province.

I do agree that there are so many other things in our country that can be avoided to save money, but these giveaway ceremonies are one of them. We are resource-less country; let's not waste our hard earn money on such things just to grab some slogans.

I can assure you, if you did well, you will be rewarded without lavish ceremonies and high standing banners.

I am in business myself and I do consider cost in every step I take. I research well before ordering anything, hiring a resource or before selecting any service for my company; that's because I am a small company with limited resources. I was just wondering, why our rulers can't think the same way. They are equally poor as I am, then why this disparity in actions?

Does Anyone Know of TeraData IT Excellence Award Winners?

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:46 PM PDT

TeraData National IT Excellence Awards were held last Sunday (March 18th, 2012), in which 13 Awards were given to the best of the best in the information technology industry; that's how organizers define them.

We know of few winners, those who told us directly or we got to know about them through sources.

Here's the list:

Khuram Mujtaba – Excellence in IT Business Intelligence
Shahid Arif – Excellence in Software Development
NetSol Technologies Limited – Excellence in Software Export
Dr. M. Sadiq Ali Khan – Excellence in Networking
Aamir Malik, Excellence in IT Media & Publication
Tariq Malik, CIO of the Year Award

We don't know of other winners, who they are and what they won. TeraData's official website wasn't detailing any of the winners till yesterday. Today there are four winners mentioned on website out of 13 total awarded.

We called the numbers given on the website, but of no luck. In fact when I dialed a cell number mentioned on awards' website the person told me that he is not associated with Teradata and can't give me the list. He was probably from KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co., the firm responsible for the audit of awards.

I have been trying Teradata's phone number, for over a week now; no one responds there but an answering machine.

Public relation email id for Teradata Pakistan mentioned on this page http://www.teradata.com/contact-us/public-relations/ is bouncing back. Probably because Sameera Siddiqui isn't with the Teradata any more but page was never updated.

At the end, I gave up today and thought of asking you to share the award list, if by any chance you have it.

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