Infosys@25: 25 Things ; You Still Didn't Know About Infosys

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On July 2, 2006, Infosys technologies will turn 25. That's not a significant age for a company; several Indian companies are older. In these 25 years, however, Infosys has set new standards in governance and wealth creation (both for employee and shareholders) and turned an entire industry on its head (global delivery as opposed to offshoring). Despite the rash of publicity the company receives, however, there are still things about it that are little- known. Here are 25 such.

1. Infosys wasn't N.R. Narayana murthy's first entrepreneurial venture. That would have to be a company called Softronics, an IT consulting firm that Murthy founded in Pune in 1976. He wound it up (when he realised that focusing on the domestic market wouldn't take the firm anywhere) and signed up to head Patni's software business.

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Infosys@25: 25 Things ; You Still Didn't Know About Infosys

2. Murthy is employee # 4, not employee number # 1 at Infosys. Although he resigned on December 29, 1980, the day he decided to start Infosys, Murthy did not join Infosys, which was incorporated on July 2, 1981, until 18, March 1982. He had promised Ashok Patni that he would complete two projects and it took him that long to do that. "I must have served the longest notice period in the history of corporate India," laughs Murthy. P.S: N.S. Raghavan was employee # 1

P.P.S: Infosys doesn't repeat employee numbers; today, the number for fresh emp...

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