标题: Indian American: Satya Nadella [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-1-2014 08:24 标题: Indian American: Satya Nadella Don Clark, Monica Langley and Shira Ovide, Microsoft Favorite: From India to Insider; Mr Nadella is known as a good collaborator, but that could be a chalenge in shaking up the firm's culture. Wall Street Journal, Feb 1, 2014
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303743604579355280326510974
("'The compliments that he is a good collaborator, that makes him popular—but at the same time that could be his biggest challenge,' says Alexander Gounares, a 17-year Microsoft veteran who is now chief executive of a startup called Concurix Corp. 'Was Steve Jobs really a great collaborator? No'")
Note:
(a) Satya Nadella
Satya
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya
(section 1 Etymology--That "as" is Sanskrit, not English)
(b) The report thrice flashes back to an October, 2013 interview with Mr Nadella. Perhaps it was not published; in any event, I can not find it in the Web.
(c) "he joined Microsoft in 1992 from Sun Microsystems. Mr Nadella's journey to the upper echelons of the tech sector began in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, where he attended high school and bowled on the cricket pitch. He studied electronics and communication engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology, a hillside campus less than 10 kilometers away from the Arabian Sea."
(i) Sun Microsystems (1982-2010; Headquarters Santa Clara, California; acquired by Oracle) Wikipedia
(ii) Hyderabad
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad
(capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh; Established in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah; section 1.1 Toponomy)
(iii) Manipal Institute of Technology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipal_Institute_of_Technology
(commonly known as MIT, Manipal and Manipaltech) is a constituent institution of the Manipal University that specializes in the fields of engineering and technology; private; Established in 1957 in Manipal, Karnataka, India, MIT is one of the first self-financed colleges in India)
(iv) Manipal
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipal
("The name is derived from Mannu palla anglicised to Manipal. Mannu means mud and Palla means lake in kannada and Tulu Language. This 400 metre lake, after which Manipal is named, is located in the middle of the town, and offers boating facilities")
(v) Arabian Sea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea
is a male given name in India, meaning and etymology being the same as Ganesha.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha
(section 1 Etymology and other names)
(ii) The Indian surname Prasad: "Hindu name from Sanskrit prasada ‘favor’, ‘grace’, ‘offering’. In the northern states, it probably evolved into a family name from use as the final element in a compound personal name such as Deviprasad, meaning ‘gift of the god Hari’, Jagannathprasad ‘gift from the lord of the world (i.e. Shiva)’. In South India it is used only as a male given name, but has come to be used as a family name in the US among people from South India."
(e) "SQL or Structured Query Language is a special-purpose programming language" that "appeared in 1974." Wikipedia