[Indic-computing-users] Re: Size of Indian Language Computing Market?

[Vijay P. S. A. <vi...@ek...>]

  Dear Anjaneyulu,

Well! I was the person who mentioned about the market size issue. Here 
is the  conttact you can speak to, I spoke to her if you would give my 
reference then she would know. The project is sponsored by MAIT.


Mrunmayi Atre
Research Analyst-Information Technology Practice
Frost & Sullivan, Mumbai
http://www.frost.com
email: ma...@fr...
Phone no: 8324705 extn 16


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vijay

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>   1. Re: Size of Indian Language Computing Market? (ve...@vs...)
>   2. RE: Size of Indian Language Computing Market? (Ashish Kotamkar)
>   3. Re: gujarati OCR Software (Frederick Noronha)
>   4. Market Size (ve...@vs...)
>   5. Trouble with encoding (Shashank Ashtikar)
>   6. Re: Market Size (Nagarjuna G.)
>   7. Re: Trouble with encoding (Guntupalli Karunakar)
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>Message: 1
>From: ve...@vs...
>To: ind...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Size of Indian Language Computing Market?
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>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:20:33 +0530 (IST)
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>Dear Anjaneyulu,
>
>Frankly, I don't think it is premature at all. How can anyone taking a business decision (as opposed to a tech decision) invest in a market he/she knows nothing about? People like us may do this work out of love but for commercial organizations, sizing the market is critical in terms of deciding how much time and effort to invest. 
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>Some people argue that since it is too early, there is no point in trying to size the market. That's akin to flying blind! It is better to create a working hypothesis and keep correcting it as more facts come to light. I'll check with MAIT (www.mait.com) for more information.
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>Venky
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>an...@in... wrote
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>During the Indic workshop someone had mentioned that there was
>a study carried out by a Mumbai agency on the size of the Indian
>Language Computing market. Though it was discussed and felt that 
>it was 'premature' to talk about market size I would like to try
>to get hold of any inputs from that study.
>
>Can someone point me to the study or who has done it.
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>Thanks.
>
>Anjaneyulu
>HP Labs India
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>Message: 2
>From: "Ashish Kotamkar" <as...@mi...>
>To: <ind...@so...>
>Subject: RE: [Indic-computing-users] Size of Indian Language Computing Market?
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:26:29 +0530
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>I would think it is not about the market being premature, but more about the
>dearth of any qualified survey/research as to the actual size of business.
>The estimates vary from 20 crores to 65000 crores (DQ cover story). We all
>know there is a potentially huge market out there, but its dormant and
>fragmented. It hasn't seen a scorching growth yet. No one really knows when
>and how it will grow big. The govt. would play a vital role in growing this
>market sizeably when it launches serious statewide/nationwide e-governance
>programmes with plans for replicating them on large scale. Industry also has
>a stake in this and needs to concentrate on developing serious applications
>and productizing them, rather than focussing on the fonts customers.
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>Ashish
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>>Dear Anjaneyulu,
>>
>>Frankly, I don't think it is premature at all. How can anyone
>>taking a business decision (as opposed to a tech decision) invest
>>in a market he/she knows nothing about? People like us may do
>>this work out of love but for commercial organizations, sizing
>>the market is critical in terms of deciding how much time and
>>effort to invest.
>>
>>Some people argue that since it is too early, there is no point
>>in trying to size the market. That's akin to flying blind! It is
>>better to create a working hypothesis and keep correcting it as
>>more facts come to light. I'll check with MAIT (www.mait.com) for
>>more information.
>>
>>Venky
>>
>>
>>
>>an...@in... wrote
>>
>>During the Indic workshop someone had mentioned that there was
>>a study carried out by a Mumbai agency on the size of the Indian
>>Language Computing market. Though it was discussed and felt that
>>it was 'premature' to talk about market size I would like to try
>>to get hold of any inputs from that study.
>>
>>Can someone point me to the study or who has done it.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Anjaneyulu
>>HP Labs India
>>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:00:47 +0530 (IST)
>From: Frederick Noronha <fr...@by...>
>To: svp...@ad...
>cc: Ind...@li...
>Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Re: gujarati OCR Software
>
>Does anyone have a solution for this please? FN
>
>On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 svp...@ad... wrote:
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>>Dear Sir,
>>
>>We belong to Aditya birla group situated at Baroda,Gujrat
>>We have constantly requirment to create the document in gujrati and we
>>are
>>fining dufficult to write due to no of pages generally remain too large
>>So We have a requirment of software which can scan the gujrati document
>>as
>>well as  can edit the scanned document according to our requirment
>>(means
>>can create OCR)
>>If you can help us in this area it will be highly appreciated
>>Looking forward for reply
>>Thanks and Regards
>>Sanjay Patel
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>Message: 4
>From: ve...@vs...
>To: ind...@so...
>Cc: 
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:15:13 +0530 (IST)
>Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Market Size
>
>Dear Ashish,
>
>I agree that it's difficult to predict the size of the market and it is exasperating. We need hard facts and data to argue our case for Indic Computing. I therefore welcome surveys like this. It may be like groping in the dark but the effort to size the market is something that can lead to a better understanding of ground realities. It is also useful from a policy and advocacy standpoint. 
>
>Venky
>=====
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>Ashish wrote:
>
>No one really knows when and how it will grow big. The govt. would play a vital role in growing this market sizeably when it launches serious statewide/nationwide e-governance programmes with plans for replicating them on large scale.
>
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>Message: 5
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:44:24 +0530
>To: ind...@li...
>From: Shashank Ashtikar <sha...@hb...>
>Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Trouble with encoding
>
>
>Hi,
>
>After recieving replies abt how to add extra glyphs and substitutuon rules. I decided
>to create a completely new font using the akruti glyphs. So what i am doing is I open
>two fonts in pfaedit one is a new font file(which is blank) and other one is the akruti font
>file. Now every time I paste a glyph to the new font, New font's encoding changes
>from ISO 10646-1(Unicode,BMP) to CUSTOM automatically. So I hv to change encoding everytime I
>copy a glyph to the new font. Why is this happening and how this can be fixed.
>
>
>Shashank
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>Message: 6
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:08:46 +0530
>To: ve...@vs...
>Cc: ind...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Market Size
>From: "Nagarjuna G." <nag...@hb...>
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>On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:15:13PM +0530, ve...@vs... wrote:
>  
>
>>Dear Ashish,
>>
>>I agree that it's difficult to predict the size of the market and it
>>is exasperating. We need hard facts and data to argue our case for
>>Indic Computing. I therefore welcome surveys like this. It may be like
>>groping in the dark but the effort to size the market is something
>>that can lead to a better understanding of ground realities. It is
>>also useful from a policy and advocacy standpoint.
>>    
>>
>
>We need not worry about the market size at all.  We should worry about
>ethics.  It is good and necessary to have indic-computing solutions
>and therefore we should go ahead.  Imagine, if the so called survey
>gave us a negative feedback, are we going to stop working? No, we will
>continue, by finding alternate justification.  We will create demand
>and begin to supply.  We can as agents change the market too!
>
>Nagarjuna
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>>Venky
>>=====
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>>Ashish wrote:
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>>No one really knows when and how it will grow big. The govt. would play a vital role in growing this market sizeably when it launches serious statewide/nationwide e-governance programmes with plans for replicating them on large scale.
>>
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