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a good boy - La Camorra on the road to a young student of Reading
Roberto Caruso and Anna Coat from the novel by Luigi Landi

In a seaside town near Naples, is made eerily peaceful coexistence between young and decent young people "sergeants" of organized crime. Destiny that inevitably intersect between exams and walks on the waterfront, the wars of the Camorra and generational conflicts.

"In recent years, a good boy, growing up in Naples can also mean risk of finding themselves unwittingly on the wrong side.

a raw book, which mbientazioni refers to themes and Gomorrah, but the inexorable reportage Saviano differs in a fundamental fact: everything in this book is deliberately romance. But the ritual warning the reader should make clear that any reference to facts and real people is, unfortunately, far from random.

(IL GAZZETTINO, June 2008)

'Here the mafia does not take root 'the leitmotif of the stage in the Veneto Caravan

the caravan arrived in the Veneto where stop until until 15 November. They kicked off the stages of this journey Campolongo Maggiore, common Venetian Building Stra. Veneto is a region the fight against crime - it is a symbol of the evil Brenta - has an important story. The witness also structures like the house in Campolongo, confiscated from the boss Felix Manor, now a center of social activities. It is in that structure that the participants of the Caravan have addressed the role of institutions in the fight against the mafia with the help of not only local government but also the mayors of Corleone, Antonio Iannazzo, and Lamezia Terme, John Hope . On 9 November the same debate in Piazzola sul Brenta, in the Padua area. The day ended with lunch at Cadoneghe legality of the products of cooperatives Free land, derived from land confiscated the Mafia. The 10 associations and trade unions have faced in the classroom of the Faculty of political science on how to nurture a culture that respects the rights and legality. The Padua
stage ended at Arci Fahrenheit 451, where the documentary was screened on reading the novel by Luigi Landi A good boy, the Camorra on the road to a young student . On submission of Padua stage there was talk of the Mafia as "an international problem now." For this you need to raise their guard and collaborate with organizations that fight both on the territories where they are located in the rest of Italy just as in the past ten years with the Caravan.

Bicciato Francis, Deputy Mayor, Walter Meschalin, liberation, and Michael Lawrence, AVA, stressed that the problem of waste, and in particular the disposal of toxic, have fed the coffers of crime not only in Campania . "Here the mafia does not take root and do not take root 'was the leitmotif of this stage of the Venetian Caravan that he gave his contribution because this is not just a wish.

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Introduction to the book Chinese Business Chinese Business

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manuals on China, turned and turned from every point of view, have flooded the shelves of libraries, as well as technical publications on aspects of corporate, tax and legal activities in China. Consultants, experts, international lawyers have said authoritatively on all these aspects. So do not intend to retrace the steps, but we want to provide a practical manual, practical, pragmatic people, entrepreneur, manager or consultant, is faced with real operational problems in the management of China Operations.
are voices from the field, extracts from the daily lives of those who come every day to address the problems that the race China presents a daily basis, alongside entrepreneurs, managers and staff relocated Italian. The cut will be on this text is so industrial and managerial, lying in a language as much as possible plan, borrowed from the newspaper industry and management. There is no claim to completeness and comprehensiveness in the discussion, we intend to limit the operating procedures, to case studies, examples, trying, where possible, to offer a cultural context for better understanding of China. The only intent is to try to err a little less operators, providing experiences already lived through that can serve as a warning or address.
We will however have to mention in many cases legal and administrative, will not expand here, but that may be of great interest to readers.
also refer immediately to the site of Dezan Shira & Associates, the largest Italian property consultancy in China, with 9 offices in major Chinese cities, over two hundred employees and collaborators. The reference site, which are accessible from many areas of specialized study is http://www.dezshira.com/
If even deepening the site was not enough, more details can be obtained by sending an email to italiandesk @ dezshira.com
Similarly, for the deepening of strategic and operational aspects that are not adequately satisfied in this manual may be required to bosco@keenscore.com
At the end of this introduction, two words moral and ethical aspects of working in China.
This is certainly not the place for a discussion on human rights and the social situation of China, which, while representing an important element of socio-economic context of the country, and who are always in the background of those working in it, but I like to recall an episode which I think is good that today the Chinese intelligentsia, even those not aligned, you think of the social system.
A dinner with a professor at the University of Shenzhen, great views and great cultural background, topics affecting the ethical aspects of the economic system of China. To a specific question about my civil rights, the teacher answers me with a statement which, at the time, I found replies

"The Chinese took away from poverty 300/400 million people in the last 20 years. This is the first civil law. No other system in the world has been able to do the same. "

to say: we're coming out 40 years of international isolation and arrested development. Before you think to feed people and then decide what to democracy.
We may share or not. Certainly makes one think.
The impression one gets from living in China, is that the system knows all its contradictions, and acting to address them, with the times and conditions granted by a country of 1 billion 300 million people, how little known or little understood in the West.
For example, there's no evidence in Italy of the recent decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has set as a top priority for the country to cover the gap in income between city and country. This sums up all the great contradictions of the country, the income differences are the source of inequality among social classes, with all that this entails. The development policy of the city so-called "second tier" (within the country, outside from coastal areas that were first developed), with strong investment incentives, and creation of important industrial and technological policy is part of this equalization of incomes.

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Index of the book The school

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1) Introduction
2) Cultural diversity: what it means in business in There na
3) structural fragility of Italian SMEs
- The size of the company
- Poor availability of skilled human resources.
- Poor language skills
- Low cash flow available for investment
- Difficulty in creating a system
- Additional critical elements for SMEs in China
4) Panorama of Italian companies in China
5) common pitfalls in the approach to the Chinese market
- Organizational Structure
- Trust the Chinese
- Savings fake - real costs
- Replicate models
6) The human resources management units relocated
- Select and recruit Chinese
- The new law on employment contracts
7) Manufacturing in China to sell in the world
- Yielding know how to maintain competitiveness' in Italy
- Case history
8) Buy China
- Traders, producers, buyers: buy quality
- Organization for the purchase professional
- OEM
Contracts - Research and Development by suppliers
9) Selling in China
- Consumer Market: "Italian Style - China Made"
- Market Segmentation "consumers": the phenomenon "Chyuppies"
- Someone needs
cover - How do you build the system, Italian Style - China Made
- The main objection: the protection of intellectual property
- tools for sale in China
- we do not miss anything if we do not we copy we copy the Chinese themselves. The case of self-counterfeit wine
- Sales in the industrial sector
- Italian Style - Made in China industry
- Follow the customer
- China on China
- Know How in exchange for revenue and market share
10) pills competitiveness
- Competitiveness daily
- The school key element of competitiveness
11) The world of Private Equity Funds "
12) Information tools


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The Chinese school is selective meritocratic, competitive, expensive. The students are terrified by the first rigorous entrance exam, then the votes, which may affect the admission to prestigious universities. The families are huge savings for their children to study, realizing that the school is a key factor in their future success.
I know of families who organized real collections, have self-assessed grandparents, parents, brothers, uncles, to send his youngest son University.
training for adults in Italy affects about 220,000 people. In China, the only Training College of the National Statistic Bureau, National Training Authority, headed by the Chinese equivalent of our ISTAT), mostly devoted to adult education, which was originally only in the statistics, now across the board, works on the territory Chinese Training College with 147, and 510 technical schools.
people, both employees of public entities to private companies, they pay from their own pockets the cost of training.
The Board has formed since 2005, 1,600,000 people, and every year goes to graduate 23,400 people. These figures are remarkable, even for a large country like China, especially considering that this is just one of many institutions of public education in China.
Chinese universities have the line of students out the door. Once the dream of all the American universities were now all, including Americans, want to attend the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University, also known as the MIT of China.
Foreign students in Italy represent 4.3% of the school population. In Europe the figures are very different: the data are these: In Switzerland, foreign students are 23.6%, Germany 10%, Netherlands 13%, Spain 5.7%, Portugal 5, 5% France 5%.

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Again in terms of competitiveness, what about the speed of construction of major public works? China has completed construction of the world's longest bridge over a stretch of sea. It dell'Hangzhou Bay Bridge, a work of 36 km through the East China Sea.
The bridge of concrete and steel beats by far all other such as the one that connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia is only 25 kilometers and could join the UK to France across the English Channel. It cost about 1.5 billion, covering to 29 percent by private capital.
Its structure is made to withstand the typhoons that often hit that stretch of beach south of Shanghai, as well as subsidence of the land. For the construction This is one of the most ambitious of China took three years of work.

(Need a consultant for the bridge over the Strait of Messina?)

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know-how in exchange for sales and market shares on China China

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An example of perfect integration, maximum optimization of resources and different experiences of Italian companies and Chinese is important Italian textile group, also very active in the field of packaging and distribution of fashion and women.
Their strategy integrates very efficiently the concept of Italian Style - China Made, maximizing the efficiency of the system-on-China China, tracing, perfezionaldolo, the model presented in Figure 7 above.
must start by saying that we are talking about a very large group, in which the problem is more like entering China, but as always seek out new investment opportunities and growth. So it's not the problem of small business that wants to put one foot in China, but that of a big company that wants to take root, to increase market share, turnover and margins.
Their strategy, however, is illuminating and worth a description.
The company operates for many years under various brand names, not strong enough to stand alone stores in China, as is the case in Italy and Europe.
Investments to overcome the threshold of visibility for these brands in China were very heavy (the benchmarks in marketing and advertising are obviously unreachable brand of great Italian fashion and French) and returns still uncertain and long.
addition, their product placed in the middle class in Italy was likely to average out the Chinese market, which is similar articles (Chinese) a lower price. You would then have to do a re-sizing of all collections to fit the different physical structure of Chinese women, for a product replacement fast, low-priced, this could be very costly. All operations
still feasible and absolutely within reach of a large company, but like I said, very slow and uncertain outcome, the entry threshold is somewhat higher.
The company instead sought investment opportunities, turnover, market shares and profits in the short.
They then decided to focus on their strong elements: the perfect knowledge of the methods of distribution, marketing of the product fast fashion, the large capacity and flexibility in styling. They know exactly how to serve the middle-class women, they know perfectly the profile of the consumers they serve, have a great ability to create image and style that is unmistakably Italian. And experience to sell. In short, everything the necessary know-how.
With these assets in the portfolio have begun a search for industrial partners in China who have capacity, especially of their own brand and its own direct distribution channels ....
...
The brand is now one of the most famous and popular Chinese brands in women, and the company performs constant monitoring of new shopping centers in which to open new stores. Preside over the new location once it has become now they must.

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The mechanism triangulated China on China deserves to be explained in detail to a method used more more, and with excellent results, by large and medium-sized Italian groups.
is something more than we have already seen in the construction of the system, Italian Style - China Made ...

... This is a rather complex, requiring the presence and establishment in China, with Italian staff, and a strong consulting assistance to correctly handle the bureaucratic steps that both the contractual and customs, as a matter first for the construction of the components is, in this case, imported from Japan via Hong Kong.
however, is a model of great strength and impact, and provide a basis for development of sales on both the Chinese domestic market than on the other neighboring Asian markets. It is based on the exploitation of maximum economic efficiency of markets and market players themselves.
It is, in this case, a small Italian company specializing in an innovative application in the footwear sector, which uses its own patent application, which sometimes sells licenses to Chinese manufacturers, along with the technology needed to use it.

.... It is in this case of a major Italian industrial group, with an established brand and well known in the world, provider of a specific component for footwear. The organization aims to create a new hub for the entire Asia-Pacific area, replicating, and improving their organizational model has already been applied United States.
The diagram on the next page (Figure 9) resembles to some passing the previous one, with a strong variation. The Company has established a great Centre of Research and Development, in coordination with the Italian Centre, develop and test new materials, products and applications for specific market.

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Follow the Customer

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For many small and medium-sized Italian companies, more or less extensive relocation of production from their major customers has been a real trauma. For larger ones, a great opportunity.
Many small businesses, providing electronic or components in the automotive, found themselves in front of the blue to the request of their customers to provide control panels, control systems, sophisticated components, no longer in Reggio Emilia, Modena and Bologna, but maybe in Guangzhou, close to their new plant in China, albeit at Chinese prices.
Guanzhou?
These small companies have taken years to become accredited providers of a great brand, and when you were a little relaxing, rewarded for their efforts and their investments, this is invented Guangzhou or Shenzhen, and Foshan, or some other Chinese city by the unpronounceable name, for many probably just dots on a map that they had perhaps never carefully observed. For those who know China, a city with millions of inhabitants.
But the world moves, and many small businesses have had to travel the steps that, if planned, would have been much easier. Then again investment resources yet, still struggling. But just because we are terribly late and we did not notice how fast it runs the world.

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Italian Style in China - China Made industrial

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In this case, even more than in consumption is only a matter of time. The industrial system of China has demonstrated its ability to upgrade technology and innovation unimaginable for our habits thanks to strong investment in R & D of the rich Chinese industries, and close relationship with the Chinese University of Technology.
The idea that we can continue to sell equipment to the Chinese, and not worry to locate production in China, or make agreements for the exploitation of Italian technology in place will lead to dramatic results for Italian companies.
Nor must we forget that the industrial alliances in China have not only internal purposes to the Chinese market. China is becoming the standard for purchases for many developing countries. is certainly a market for other Asian countries, but now also for Africa, with which China has forged very strong political and commercial ties.
Being present in China with a production capacity highly competitive means looking out to the world in developing hungry now developed technology and industrial products, but also short of consumer products. We must therefore see China as a platform also commercial and logical decisions in this settlement in the Chinese market must have an overall vision, strategic and global development.

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we do not miss anything. If the Chinese do not copy we copy it for themselves: the case of self-counterfeit wine

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is then I doubt that it is a counterfeit wine, in fact the quality of the wine bottle is a thousand miles away from what we know well.
then write an email to the producer and I put a copy of the General Manger of the restaurant (they did so, always prevails over the spirit of the journalist). The Manager
answer me quite angry, saying that this was an indication received by the importer, and that could not possibly know all the wines of the North (the restaurant chain is owned by people of central Italy).
I answered the President of the Company which owns the brand, which has the same name, with a long email in which essentially argues that:

1) The Chinese do not understand wine

2) The importer asked a product line to offer lower market, since their standard line was too expensive for the Chinese.

3) He had invented a fancy name to replace the name of your company as a manufacturer, and do not tie to a poor product (however, had 'unfortunately been retained along with the fancy name of its well-known trademark manufacturer, which obviously helps sale, so much so that I bought it myself, I know very well that the march)

4) The wine was "drinking more than many others" (letterale!)

5) The company shall maintain turnover and market shares.

I could not believe it was copied by myself!

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Case Hystory semi-comic

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One of my clients' stories that made me smile more, thinking about improvisation, and poor knowledge of China, about an entrepreneur Emilian invited to China with the proposed purchase of its own machine. The businessman arrived in Shenzhen, and is invited to discuss a popular and elegant restaurant.
During the dinner are being developed details of the contract in that case, however, the Chinese are careful not to sign (but it would be the same). At the end of dinner, the restaurant bill is presented to the entrepreneur: almost 4,000 euros for a dinner for 5 people.
The entrepreneur pays a little surprised the cost, but does not know anything about China. Credit card and go. That restaurant does not charge more than 15/20 euros per person for dinner. Its Chinese partners had organized a combine with the restaurant. A few thousand Euros in your pocket easily.
The contractor is yet to be convinced to do the deal and returned to Italy, but his audience does not become more alive. He turns to his business association that has an agreement with our Consultancy.
we act immediately, but the first description we understand that this is a scam to Toto. Obviously, the Chinese company does not exist, has no business license, has no office. And who knows what other potential sellers has attracted into their trap ..

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They learned by heart the lesson of pragmatism Den Xiaoping, who in a speech to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the July 8, 1983 said:

"We should make use of intellectual resources of other countries, inviting foreigners to participate in the development of our projects in different fields. We have not recognized how important this is, and then we did everything we could do. In terms of modernization we have no experience nor knowledge. We should not be afraid to spend to hire foreigners. No matter how little time to remain for a long time, or only for a project. Once they're here, we must take advantage of their knowledge. We should open our country to the outside world, and ask for help from European countries to speed up our processing technology. We should do the same with Eastern European countries, because their technologies are some of our advanced piuà. China can provide them with a large market, and these countries are very eager to develop cooperation with us. We must seize this opportunity, is a matter of strategic importance.

foresight and pragmatism at its best, remarkable for a person of nearly eighty years!

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Buy Chinese Pragmatism in China Chinese staff

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I have seen some of these buy directly from alibaba.com (the largest shopping portal in China) without ever having met the supplier, without seeing the company, perhaps even without having seen a sample. All professional traders in China use alibaba.com for its size, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and speed of consultation, but none of them would never think of placing an order online for a container, and pay well in advance. Alibaba.com is the easiest way to search, but then you have to start direct contacts and Quality Control in China.
so many times, these buyers occasional drop the initiative after some bad experiences, the idea of \u200b\u200bspreading in Italy Made in China poor, unreliable and insecure. The

to tell Toyota, Mercedes, BWM, Volkswagen, the great Italian designers who produce in China, or the large American electronics or cell phones! (80% of phones in the world is produced in China).
Even the case of American MATTEL toys withdrawn from the market because products with hazardous materials and how it was dismantled by the admission by the American multinational that the problem was born of an error on their design.
Italian newspapers, often superficial and approximate, have given prominence to the problem, but I read a line, or maybe I missed, so it was probably well hidden, the fact that the President of Mattel flew to China to personally apologize to the Chinese authorities for the bad image of the country that this situation was diffused.
Televisions Chinese obviously have a huge importance to this fact.
In China, therefore, is amply demonstrated, one can produce quality products identical to that of Europe, but that did not happen by itself.

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managerial figures in China so it is not easy. Of course there are many exceptions, and they are all the result of experience gained in large foreign companies, mainly American, European or Japanese (sought after automotive engineers from Toyota and Volkswagen).
These companies invest heavily in methodically and staff training, plus it provides the managerial skills that the Chinese school is clearly not yet able to provide.
These figures of course know the value of their managerial competence, and of course speak excellent English. As a result, the salary of an engineer who normally could be around 7,000 to 10,000 RMB / month, shoots quickly -15,000 to 12,000 RMB / month. [1] The mere fact to speak good English, normally raises a 15-20% salary for all professionals.
Another important reason to use consultant in the selection of personnel and contractual aspects of personnel management. There is a very intricate mechanism of bonuses, house allowance, social costs, etc.. so sometimes you end up not fully understand what actually cost us the person we are taking.
A final point concerns the motivation of management personnel. The economic aspect is of course important for a Chinese (as it is for an Italian or a German), but it is not the only factor that will tend to accept the assignment. The image and reputation of the company and its brand, its market position, career opportunities that are offered, are all held in high regard by candidates of value, together with an element that seems trivial to us, but in China not at all: the formal title is awarded to the person (General Manager, rather than Factory Manager, QC Manager, rather than Quality Engineer, and so on. A very Anglo-Saxon habit rather underestimated by Italian firms). Because all things that I just mentioned, the right choice of managers in China is absolutely essential. Do not forget that it will pay them then select the rest of the staff, and they therefore depend the overall quality of human resources.
[1] gross salary of the employee. Includes shares of taxes and charges against him

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This element is very strong in the practice of launching a company in China. As I said, stems from the presumption that they could act in China on the basis of their experiences, considered sufficient to meet the challenges in China. Not so. After a while everyone becomes aware that China is a different world. This knowledge can cost you later.
Another element linked to the fake is the low savings propensity, which, combined with poor knowledge of the country, are what appear to be real cost savings, which are proving increasingly false. Let's see some

:

• Relying on a Chinese economic and administrative law firm, rather than an international structure (most expensive)
• select staff on the basis of information, suggestions, recommendations or contact the local partner
• Choice the partner with which to start operations. Again there is very occasionally. Often the partner is a superficial knowledge or nearly so. The Chinese partner is sometimes entrusted with the complete management of the Company. The control is very low. The disastrous effects, in economic terms but also to legal liability (tax and labor law in particular)
• launched an initiative on the basis of a few partial data. We have seen cases of companies from the carbonated market, based on an experience of a few days or weeks in China. Some spectacular, where the Chinese are very clever, is sufficient to convince the company that China is the future, and that the partner is the right one.
• not perform due diligence before entering into a JV to acquire or even in whole or part of a Chinese company. Due diligence is an extremely useful tool
• Issue orders to unknown companies do not scan
• Quality

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I want to mention a real episode, with some bitterness, but we must take note of everything that was not done to promote in Italy China, and the fact that Italian industry is only a piece of the system, that alone can not win the battle of the Chinese market.
The episode is this: the General Manager of a major Chinese public company, of which I am a friend, asking me to help organize a study trip to Italy for about twenty leaders. Not a trip to the savings, the budget was adequate, it could be a good opportunity to open a new, small but qualified channel, the Chinese tourism in Italy.
I do to try to do on the sites Italian institutional videos, pictures, descriptions in Chinese. Seeking even more institutional site, the ENIT, but I can not find a shred of promotional video to propose to the Board of Directors of The (let's head in the Chinese know very little of Italy, and that if we are to attract their tourism must show).
then decide to build a small home movie, putting together the most beautiful pictures of Venice, Rome, Florence, Milan, and putting a song in the background of Pavarotti. It came a decent job, a condensed summary of the beauties Italian.
proud that I was making a small contribution to our country, sending the movie to my friend to present to the Board of Directors of your Company, in support of the proposed trip to Italy. Help my friend to build an itinerary and also to have some quotes from Italian tour operators (who as a poor image have done their part). Some of the directors, however, said they were more in favor of a trip to France, and this proposal went against what my friend suggested that Director Italy. When I asked the rationale for them, the answer to pieces literally sent my remaining hopes on our country's ability to assert themselves for what that is, or was. The answer, more or less, was:

"Italy is a country that has just appeared at modernization, and is just out of misery!"

That's what we managed to convey to the Chinese 'Italian image. So the Chinese consider Ferrari, Prada, Valentino, Versace, Bottega Veneta, the peaks of excellence in a landscape of misery.

I came to wonder whether this is so.

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Italian Wine in China who has seen it? Italy

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We find instead placed in an excellent way to Spain, France, and large producers of wine from Chile, New Zealand, South African, Californian, who are literally invading the shelves of supermarkets. No trace of our great oils (those present at the Italian brand is already owned by the English), typical Italian products, fruit juices, canned goods of quality (well-placed Germans and Americans).
Very few Italian wines, divided into two major levels: the Brunello (sold over 2,000 RMB, and the modest and anonymous red table, dressed for the occasion with a flashy label-owl, sold less than 200 RMB (They are produced that the winery has a price less than 2 euros). Our Prosecco and Franciacorta? The noble wine Piedmont, Tuscany, Friuli and Sicilian? No, or at most a few pale appearance. The problems Chinese statistics say that the importance of wine in China has doubled in 2007, which France has also doubled its exports in stessso year, to share 15,517.251 gallons, Italy is still only at 5,113,181, followed from Spain at an altitude of 3,399,425 litri.Con a market share of 37% by volume, France enjoys a privileged position and hardly scalzabile. In value terms the position is even stronger exports add up to 56.3 million Euros and this ranking is followed by Australia (19.8%) and Italy (9.7%). This means that not only export a little wine, but we manage to export mainly cheap wine. In contrast, the average prices of imported French wine in 2007 increased by 25%., However, compared to an average increase in the price of imported wines by 60%.
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In 2000 the Chinese government held a competition to be planted 24 hectares of vines in Taishi, Hebei province in the cold (about 100 kilometers from Beijing, and to provide all the processing plants of the grape and wine production . This is a holding demo (called the Sino-French Grape Growing and Winemaking Demonstration Farm, which opened November 13, 2006, after five years of work), but, as we shall see, has already good business.
The race was won by a Franco-Chinese Consulting Company (the France-China-Tech Ltd) [1] , with offices in Hong Kong and Bordeaux, and with an office in Shenzhen, who planted the vines and provided all facilities in the cellar.
The 16 varieties of grapes planted are of course strictly French.
We Italians, masters in the production of machinery and equipment for wine making, as well as master winemakers, this event should be missed! The facilities provided by the French for this initiative, would seem to be Italian, according to the description of the site, but the industrial and commercial heart of the initiative is all the French. The Company
Franco-Chinese author of the initiative, said openly on a French website, [2] its objective of selling to Chinese farmers of small plants (kit) for the production of wine, and you want to create the first Chinese DOC .
Now the company began producing its own wine and sell it in supermarkets. The pricing policy is extremely cautious, red wines are located around 16-18 euros, well above the Vignelli (or marcs) Chinese, who are 3-4 in Euro, but just below the first European wines price, which can be found starting at around 20 Euro.
These wines may well be sold to the public at 8-10 euros, with margins still certainly interesting, but both manufacturers and mass retailers if they look good from it, and maintain their position around 18 Euro. From what follows in this capacity?
from the mere fact that the label has much in evidence that the wine is made with China, but the famous French tradition (specifying Bordeaux). Therefore, Chinese wine but technically French. The names of the wines, then, are marked Chateau. In other words: French Style - Made China. The French thought we were before me, I have not invented anything.

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System in China: the new challenge of consumption

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The Italian system has the possibility of a strong recovery on the delay in its presence in China. The
exports to China are growing strongly, but Italy still represents only about 1% of Chinese imports, trade and interchange with China puts it at 10.mo the rankings (although up 22% in 2006 and is still growing). Italy's trade deficit with China, however, continues to grow at rates of around 20%, which means that the system Italy is rising imports from China more than it can increase exports.
secodo the results of the third Summit Made in Italy (Il Sole 24 Ore) in the years 2007 / 2011 the wave of increased demand for Made in Italy by so-called emerging countries will suffer a further positive surge.
The attractiveness of Italian products is therefore very strong, but in this case, the structural weakness of System Italy, and Italian SMEs, could prove an insurmountable obstacle. To date, approximately 50% of Italian exports to China is represented by machinery and industrial equipment, a sector in which we maintain a good competition, but the space of increase in the Consumers, the one where the "Made in Italy expresses the maximum His potential is really enormous.
Considering that Italy is, as we said, 1% of the Chinese, and half is done by machines and industrial plants, means that our Consumers export products to China represents about 0.5% of Chinese.
Sometimes it's almost demeaning to Italian expatriates in China to see how in the world of the Chinese consumer that Italy is really a Cinderella.

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The strategic mistake of Italian system to meet the challenge of China Chinese

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was made a fundamental mistake from the part of the Italian economy than China. An error by the dramatic effects of which it is now difficult to escape. The China phenomenon has exploded over the past 10 years, with a peak in the last few years, but began quietly 20 years ago.
What was the reaction of the Italian industrial economy in the wake Chinese? Subject to rare and commendable exceptions, the reaction was the same one that has had the appearance (30/40 years ago) of Japan phenomenon.
When Japan began to invade in the years 50-60 the Western world with its cheap products (plastics, electronics, etc..), The Italian system was thought that this was a temporary phenomenon, a fire straw that would have died within a few years, imploding in its own contradictions (the same as those we find today in Chinese),
Needless to say it is over, what has become Japan and its economy, the world scene, is under the eyes of all.
With China has adopted exact same analysis.
Rather than embrace this new world to understand the threats, to assess their chances and opportunities, has snubbed the phenomenon, certain that sooner or later it would be deflated, and everything would be back to normal.
Italian companies have so entrenched to defend their market shares worldwide, with two instruments: a smart and one not.

Large companies are able to think big and come with real capacity for innovation and development, have intensified their intrinsic values \u200b\u200band the value added of their products, creating a barrier to access for Chinese products.
Creativity, style, design, technology, beauty, short, Italian Style, have been the engine for the general development of the Made in Italy, building very high barriers to entry to their markets, protecting these companies from the threat of China, and allowing them to increase profits, which are now using for its massive commercial investments in China .
This was the intelligent tool.
tool, let's say, less intelligent, it was the valiant defense of market share through the erosion of margins. He tried to keep that market positions, customers, quotas, trying to meet the competition of the Chinese side of the price, with the obvious result of erosion of margins. Was a suicidal attitude, which has resulted in the impoverishment of the companies, who are now unable, financially, to cope with increasing the level of technology and aesthetics in China, which is threatening even the most sophisticated productions. On the other hand, this policy has not always guaranteed the maintenance of market share, of which Chinese companies are gradually a hold on the world scene.
When it was realized that the battle against the giant Asian trade could not have been overcome in this way, we passed a loud voice to the request of customs duties and various protectionism against Chinese exports, arguing that Chinese companies did the dumping their products, without mentioning that 60% of this export is done by foreign companies or companies owned by foreign capital. The typical in the foot.

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: collectivism and individualism. The mix of success

Excerpts Chinese Affairs

Finally the view of the cultural differences and the obstacles that they bring in business, a nod to a popular belief in the West: the phenomenon that the Chinese economy is tied to tradition the community, the indistinct mass of the whole people. The phenomenon is often described as China's unstoppable wave that is compact, which moves in the same direction. This is absolutely true, and that is why the effectiveness of public intervention to address economy, but it is also true that in this cultural and social situation has been triggered, paradoxically, as a detonator, rampant individualism, personal desire to emerge and grow rich, to become number one in something, take social visibility and appreciation, as if capitalism to China's Deng Xiaoping had opened the doors not only to economic liberalization, but also the development of individual potential, the first inhibited or masked by the prevailing culture community.
Put together, these seemingly contradictory elements, and you have one of the explanations on the strength dell'arrembaggio China to Western economies.

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sales in China. Italian Style - Made

Excerpts Chinese Affairs

There are already many examples of Italian companies are operating with this logic: Italian products, Chinese production. A leading sector in which many Italian SMEs are already active, is automotive.
The fast pace of big European brands of cars, for years outsourced to China, has forced many Italian manufacturers from China to supply the same products previously provided by Italy. I think no one doubts that the components supplied Vokswagen, Piaggio or Toyota from foreign companies in China should be of similar quality to those provided first from Italy, Germany or Japan.
Similarly there are examples of optimization and integration of production systems by Italian companies, which are put in a position of greater competitiveness in world markets, allowing their Chinese partners to produce in China on their behalf, or for distribution in JV in the Chinese market (through technology transfer, or simply by licensing), finished goods, finished goods or components of Italian design.
This Italian companies can remain competitive in a market where China and India, were being sidelined due to a better value for money.
Manufacturing in China components, machinery, plant, keeping Italy in the value software represented by R & D, design, styling, is proving to many Italian companies, a real cure to support the brand in international markets and employment rates in Italy, without giving up in exasperation that competitive edge has eroded in recent years .

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Chyuppies China: the new class of Chinese consumers. Because 'the system does not intercept

Excerpts Chinese Affairs

In fact, the largest emerging market for Chinese consumption is aggregating around that target consumers who have called chyuppies - Chinese yuppies - mainly formed by young people under 32 / 35 years, with two incomes around 1,000 euros per month in the family, with a strong propensity to buy strongly attracted to the Italian style, and Western Europe in general.
A recent survey published by Newsweek on 500 Chinese youth belonging to this category of consumers showed that 90% of these people think of spending more in 2008 than it spent in 2007, taking into account an expected increase in their Wages vary from one to a + 10 + 25% over the next two years.

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Praise Saviano but do not overdo ... How

to tell the truth, while acknowledging the greatness and the courage of Saviano and yet to publicly express my pride in his fellow countryman, I want to remind everyone that the things he recounted and criticized, were voiced 15 years ago '(not the day before yesterday) by Senator Lorenzo Diana (from San Cipriano d'Aversa), under escort, I believe, since 1996 . I agree, therefore, with all the pro Saviano initiatives of recent times, but let's not forget the equally brave scholars who preceded him, who were already aware of the facts, misdeeds, figures, turnover, collusion, underworld infiltration and customs of the bell and who also have tried to send, by their writings, the scenarios of this dark and twisted world of crime bell, not earning anywhere near the success of Roberto. So, it certainly leads to a palm of a hand Gomorrah, but bring on the same palm of your hand, even the writings of Bruno De Stefano , Simone Di Meo , Gigi Di Fiore, Sergio Nazzaro , Jo ' Marrazzo, Paliotti Vittorio, Francesco De Rosa , Isaiah Sales , Scanni Matteo, Enzo Ciconte , Roberto Anfossi , articles Giancarlo Siani (which, had he been alive, an escort would not have had even in 2050) and Don Peppino Diana . Should not be ignored, also the excellent essays by Francesco Barbagallo of Marisa Figurative of Francesco Marolda of Antonio Ghirelli of and Sergio De Gregorio even historians of the South as De Leo, Coletti, Barrese, Balestrini, Virnicchi , Faenza and others, to mention the great precursor of the current and anticipated sociological literature and nonfiction Neapolitan underworld that Bell identified perfectly developments, the evolution and degeneration, while living in an era far removed from today. I refer to Matilde Serao , Benedetto Croce , Giustino Fortunato , Arturo Labriola , Francesco Saverio Nitti , Edward Scarfoglio , Luigi Settembrini and many others. Forgive me, but in light of the foregoing, this tam tam Gomorrah on me seems to be amplified beyond measure. Apart from the style absolutely outstanding Saviano, content of the text seems to me that all these authors have written so many things from him . Probably many will disagree with me but I, as a passionate crowds of studies on organized crime and terrorism, I read an avalanche of books and, I repeat, that apart from winning the narrative style of this young writer, I have not found major new elements in the events narrated (note, I speak of "novelty" and not "quality"). Evidently the power of the market is too, so it's above all this. I have heard from many quarters: "Finally, it was about time someone spoke of the Camorra in Naples," by suggesting that Saviano was the first. It is on this point that imposes a duty of truth, if only to bring justice to those who have studied and observed the phenomenon for a long time racketeer, writing and speaking, with no amplification advertising. Sorry, but this is my humble thought that does not detract in any way the greatness of Roberto.

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Gigi Landi

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Software Architecture: to be fast ...

Years ago ... yet another interview with Bill Gates in which the speaker asks what is the behavior, the methodology ... In short, the most important thing to do in software development ... Question
all things trivial ... the answer, judging from the face of Gates and the resulting dried his famous wry smile, it might even be trivial ...
Gates focuses for a moment and, after a few seconds, a response which, in its apparent banality and simplicity, and it remains to be absolutely brilliant ...
Gates' answer ... simply ...:

"to be fast ..."

The interviewer will show itself a bit 'annoyed by something that Gates seems to have tossed so much for responding, and presses Gates asking him again, you ... it is obvious that it is necessary to be quick and fast during the development of any software ... but anyway ... else, according to Gates, is really important, after being fast, in software development?

Gates answers this time ... even colder if possible:

"to be faster ..."

Napoleon Bonaparte had already responded, a bit 'of time before a similar question, of course, what were the three most important parameters to be considered on the battlefield ... Napoleon's reply ...

... vitesse, vitesse , vitesse! "

Vitesse, of course, is French speed ...

speed motorboat, 1923 Benedetta Cappa Marinetti.

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was born in Naples on the problem of "garbage"

Living far from Naples, my friends have often asked me recently where the problem is rooted in the garbage in Naples. They think that the mere fact of being Neapolitan I should be aware of all the mechanisms of political, social, business and why not, even anthropological who are behind this phenomenon which, incidentally, has no equal, even in the same South It is not that expert, but the idea I have done over the years, regardless of whether you come from the beautiful and ravaged Campania, far from "Felix" as the Romans called it at the time of Scipio, by virtue of the fertility of its land and its enviable climate.
I try to summarize in a few lines of the "history" of this complex and endemic problem.
In principle, the problem of waste in Campania is attributable to two orders causes:

1. almost total lack of differentiation in the collection of waste (except for some areas of Salerno and Irpinia, where, on the contrary, the differentiation comes up to 85%).
2. Exploitation of emergency situations, once created, by criminal organizations and businesses by disposing of the camp, in collusion with strong organizations even those members of the same.

The first cause is due to a over twenty years of marriage between political, business and the Camorra through the system of CONSORTIA joint venture, public and private. This system has actually allowed agl'imprenditori engaged in the disposal, in collusion with the mafia and protected by a large share of local political power to circumvent all the control mechanisms, both national and Community level, making the "consortium" a kind monopolistic cartel that inevitably ends up penalizing the competition and, ultimately, companies that win tenders can only be those belonging to the consortium. The fact, then, that such groups have a financial component public (sponsored by political parties and local government) and one private (the business community) means that the public portion of the contract to ensure the collection of waste in all municipalities of reality Consortium (eliminating any possible competition from other companies), but it also means that individuals from approprino profits, leaving all the expenses and losses to the public. In the end, therefore, spend little or nothing to the private party, but s'intascano all the profits. Obviously, such undertakings are almost always close to the Camorra, or even would be able to stand in the forefront in the consortium. The earnings of these companies are made even more conspicuous by the fact that, since the firms colluded, they have no intention of complying with national and community structure that are given, just that the "consortium, in some way lets do it with a series of artful deceptions of existing rules to their advantage by using the rules that govern life and activities of the consortiums. So, instead of promoting separate collection, recycling, incineration and gl'interventi of termoriduzione, they prefer only to classic landfills (many of which are also unfair and illegal), the old and traditional in which pit all possible, even those that waste should not end there because absolutely harmful . In this way the waste cycle is not completed, in some cases, even part and landfills eventually reach saturation.
The political class has always pretended not to understand that until it all ended in a landfill you could not get to a situation of saturation. In all civilized countries it is known that very little has to go to landfill, the smallest part of a general sample of urban waste, agricultural and industrial applications. Mention
aside, then, deserve the toxic waste, whose disposal the normal price would be about 70-80 cents per kg, while the companies of the Camorra they dispose of them illegally for about 10 cents per kg, destroying every form of competition because only a contractor does not dispose of these crazy prices.

The second set of causes lies in the state of emergency that is created for the reasons stated above. face of the emergency, the streets filled with waste, with the population on a war footing, the Camorra, the enterprises themselves end up offering to dispose of the surplus in their landfills, pushing up prices, using its emergency . In these cases, the commissioners of the government (De Gennaro and the various Bertolaso, for instance), but to start the collection and release piles of garbage from the streets, buying even in the eyes of voters in favor of the governments that hired them, turn a blind eye to the nature of the landfill that is going to be involved and the type of disposal practices. In the end it has the paradoxical case of an emergency that disposal in landfills is inadequate and illegal, mostly owned by the Camorra, which for these disposals take rivers of money from government and police stations, in addition, gets a standing outside deleterious emergence could never achieve. It is, in other words, the classic case of realization of the famous Neapolitan proverb "Horn and Mazza," referring, of course, the citizens of Campania.
In the end, therefore, prevail this approximate solution and the fall-back only because the face of upcoming elections and / or election campaigns, politicians interested in cleaning up the city and reach the result in positive affect citizens, regardless of the method used to do it.
In principle, it is a bit 'this is the story of the disposal in Campania and Naples in particular. Even the last cleaning, in my opinion just a facade, because the suburbs and some areas of the province are still under water from the waste, under this policy patch, as he called 10 years ago my professor of 'politics of' environment, "John Leo University of Naples. A policy not only patch, but that does not have a strong constituency behind any long-range planning nor a cut at the root of the problem . And then there's the classic turn of the knife in when they feel Neapolitans 2 out of 3 said: "This government at least some sort of cleaning has made it, who did not even existed before this." Oh well, what to say, "alive and lively Naples Italy."

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Gigi Landi

Brown Spotting Period

blow to the Casalesi clan: made 107 arrests

the early hours of today there has been a police blitz against Caserta Camorra clan Casalesi, to make 107 arrests. Coordinated by the Central Directorate of the Police Anti-Crime, concerning the operation of the organization leaders and soldiers operating not only in Caserta and in southern Lazio, but also with national and international connections. The GdF is going to the seizure of movable and immovable property and commercial companies related to the clan for 100 mln euro.Tre alleged killer of the massacre in Castel Volturno (Caserta), in which six African immigrants were killed, Stan in their hideout in the province of Naples. And yet, arrests of members of the Casalesi clan, including the wife of the super boss Francesco Schiavone, told Sandokan. Two major operations of the police, almost simultaneously, Today marked a victory of the state, in what he called the Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, "a day to be framed." Casale SEIZED ASSETS FOR OVER 100 MILLION anticamorra The operation last night led to the seizure of property belonging the Casalesi clan for a total value of over € 100 million. This was announced by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, during a press conference at Palazzo Chigi. "They were seized - said the minister - 48 companies, 148 vehicles, 134 buildings and 13 horses." MARONI: Casale severe blow on "Tonight we have dealt a blow to the Casalesi clan." This was stated by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni. The minister, in conference Print at Palazzo Chigi, stressed that "all state structures have acted together." "The war against the Camorra - has said - will continue until it is won. It is the 'first major response that the state gives to the war declared by the Camorra." "This morning he called me to congratulate the Head of State". NAPOLITANO: RECOGNIZED first party "The response to the aggression of organized crime demonstrates the ability of state forces, rapid reaction and concrete." said the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, who gave to the Prosecutor of Naples, the Chief of Police and Commanders Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza my deepest satisfaction surveys and transactions that led to the capture of prominent representatives of the clan.

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From "TORRESETTE" - Tuesday 30 September 2008

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Father Zanotelli other intellectual continuous risk of censure

Dear Friends Neapolitan

Yesterday we heard Father Alex Zanotelli.
He spoke of many things, and with a really strong passion. He spoke
waste of Naples, as the real problem but not the general waste and toxic waste coming from all over Italy, of how everything has started twenty years ago, after it was discovered that Italy will dispose of its toxic waste in Somalia and it was decided (between the Camorra and P2 as the voice of industry) to make Campania dumping of toxic waste in Italy.
He described how things happen, what choices did the wretched and criminal rulers (all), how the collection is possible and the people of Campania is ready for this, and already there is a percentage of collection elevetatissima in many cities (in some, up to 90%).
E 'has become apparent, said Zanotelli, that will not solve the problem, there is interest in building ecovalorizzatori (many more than those that would be needed and that it is certain that produce dioxin), and the consequences that always fall on those who affected the earnings of those who build them and receive grants, that is, the people of Campania. Among other things, Zanotelli remembered that 7% are on the bill that Enel, which is reproduced as renewable energy goes directly to the construction of ecovalorizzatori (which echoes, as it produces dioxin, have nothing).
Zanotelli remembered three things we can do immediately to reduce the problem firsthand:
1. reject unnecessary packaging and packaging in excess;
2. stop using plastic and use, rather, their bags of leather or cloth;
3. get water in glass bottles, using glasses and stop with the plastic (found near Alaska, a continent of plastic bottles and transported together from the current). Many
things he said even as, for example, that three hundred and seventy million people live with 75 euro cents per day and three billion people with a euro a day and a half.
that wars and weapons are due to the fact that a small part of the world's population is most risorche economic and San Francisco, stripping in front of the court that the accused was the first to argue that anyone who has something has need to have weapons to defend .
Our weapons to defend our living standards, but, more importantly, uphold the great wealth of a few individuals.
Alex, said something very simple: if you only slightly reduces this difference, a lot of violence and a lot of fear, there would be more.

wanted to share this with you.
embrace you with affection.
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speech by Alex Zanotelli a Romena, Pratovecchio (Ar )....

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Architects: Paul Allen - Software Architect, Microsoft (1971-1983)

The beginning
This is a story if it had not really happened no one would believe it.

sounds like a legend, and in fact is absolutely no doubt that much of what was about to tell the tone of the legendary and despite the fact that the character, Paul Allen, as one of the 10 richest men in the world, is of course, and is, of course, something very concrete.

... and, in case we forget, there are his $ 30 billion of assets estimated to date to remind us.

Another thing that we always keep in mind, in telling the story of Paul Allen, the only real number two in the Microsoft of all time, and its first Software Architect, is the fact that he and Bill Gates have been friends forever, and have shared their passion for computers since they were two young teenagers .
IT is their common passion and a passion that is all too evident from the photo below, a very rare image of 1968 when Bill was 13 years (Gates was born in 1955) and Paul has 15 (Allen, 1953) .


remarkable aspects and that shines through all things, and attitude and is well known to those working in the field of software development ( pair programming, pair programming, there they are ... even Bill & Paul worked With this method there !!!), Paul to the keyboard and writes the code.

And in fact the first true Software Architect, of what, at the time of the foundation, called Micro-Soft was Paul Allen.

The only person, besides the mother (who has played a key role in the creation of that colossus which is now Microsoft) which is said that Gates has never trusted in his life.
Paul Allen, perhaps the only true and only friend of Bill Gates, and his first Architect!
Allen has played a key role in climbing to the success of Microsoft and has never created problems of leadership to Gates.
Issues leadership, Incidentally, that are deeply felt in the world of computing, for the particular type of personality "aggressive" and that they must always and necessarily good programmers.
Allen has always accepted the Gates' leadership, that despite being larger than age two years, compared to Bill.
For Allen, after all, perhaps only interested in the technical-creative and in fact between Allen and Gates, there was probably the same kind of symbiosis technical and commercial skills and raiders in the negotiations that there was for another couple of computing history, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Apple).

Gates, Allen and Micro-Soft
Allen is the one who when found, along with Gates, the Micro-Soft, and they were both in their early twenties, he accepted without a murmur the diktat Gates. Bill in fact, on the advice of his mother, he changed just before transcribing formal acts before the notaries, the percentage distribution of the shares.
The initial shares of Micro-Soft was 50% and 50% Allen Gates. When the mother of
Gates (which it was intended for business and was an influential member of many powerful groups in urban areas in Seattle, their residence) saw the allocation made by his son ordered him to change it ...
He told Bill that there is no company in the 50% ... Said, still with his son, reproaching him hard to understand nothing, which would sooner or later there comes a time, as part of corporate life, to decide something extremely important ... and in that case should be clear who had the last word and who's not.
knew Bill and I come back from Paul saying that he, Bill Gates, decided that the quotas had to be changed, 51% reserved for himself, Gates, and 49% for Paul.
Take it or leave it ... they looked into his eyes while Paul took his decision ... very few people in the world can stand the look of Bil Gates ... and Paul agreed.


It was the beginning of something that is now, in fact, legend.
not retrace the whole, only some key aspects, also to better understand the role of an Architect, which was and is Allen, and how this role is often decisive.
A good technical choice of a good architect can save a serious situation and seemingly hopeless.
A bad choice, or even worse, the lack of a Software Architect and the situation becomes critical real technical breakdown.

Microsoft DOS
Allen is the person who directed Gates, after the same had concluded the deal with IBM, the choice of buying the code - basis of what later will become the DOS. They bought the code-base by a programmer who had designed and produced, with no commercial success, something similar to what we needed them, a clone of the C / PM Gary Kildall (Digital Research).
bought it for $ 40,000!
Allen was to extend it, working like crazy on the terminals of the university, and it was he above all who made a real technical miracle when, in the morning when he was leaving for the IBM to deliver the product (and we only went Allen also because they were saving money on air tickets) they realized, too late, Gates and Allen, who had forgotten to write the sequence of bootstrap . Working on college
terminals (they had saved on this!) The bootstrap it was accomplishing central mainframe. But the DOS had to be autorun!
If they were simply forgotten ...!
Allen then made a real masterpiece of engineering. Gates was already thinking of delaying maneuvers and phone calls to IBM, but they were already on the third court, the clerk would have almost certainly lost most of their lives.
Allen then took the decision, the decision of a life, Gates told not to worry, that he would write the sequence of bootstrap ... and it did so ... damn ... alone in the plane with a pencil and paper and in 3 hours!
Gates looked after, incredulous, but Allen was convinced he could do it ... and Paul wrote on the plane, on sheets remedied at the last moment, incredibly memory, the code sequence bootstrap!
arrived for testing at the site IBM transcribed calmly, while the technicians were scanning the skeptics, the code in the IBM PC prototype that he made available and all worked without errors ... miraculously!


do not become the case in one of the ten richest men in the world!


disease
And the story goes on until to 1983 ... Microsoft is already a powerhouse in the ICT sector in the United States and around the world and under the leadership of Gates moves with a ruthlessness that is indicative of how aggressive they intend to overwhelm the market.
are, in fact, already at that time, complaints for questionable marketing approaches used by Microsoft (but still typical of many ICT environments!) According to the method FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - " fear, uncertainty and doubt "- that is basically to spread news, mostly false, or technical inability to serious technical problems of software to prevent their competitors to gain or defend market.
In 1983 something unexpected happens, something you do not expect something ... but it reminds us that all men are men ....
Paul Allen is seriously ill ... and ... a cancer, Hodgkin's disease .
lasts two years the fight against the disease by Allen. Meanwhile, Gates is close friend and tells him not to worry ... he'll see that the company ... are the two hardest years for Gates and Allen ... years in which the Allen sfanga in his fight for life ... and Gates commercial triumphs against all opponents.
After two years as Gates is very happy to take back its Architect, who is back after winning his fight against the disease.
But Allen, who owned 49% is already rich beyond imagination, his friend from an unexpected answer ... tells you no longer want to work!
that, having faced death, he learned the value of life and now wants to enjoy it, want to spend all the money earned, he has his passions (music, basketball, football, women, travel ...) and did not care no more work !
... and then pray to get rid of Bill and economically to let him go! For
Gates is a heavy blow, thinking at first that his old friend is mad and takes time, because 49% of the outstanding Microsoft is not a transaction so economically feasible in the short.
But then time passes and Gates understands that his friend is serious, who really pulled the plug, then switch to plan B orchestrated by Gates ... that is the final part of our history as we will see ...
Meanwhile, in the last 20 years, Allen has made and is making all their whims ... buy basketball teams (the Portland Trailblazers) and a football, the Seattle Seahawks .
Build and founded a museum of the total cost of 500 mil. dollars devoted to one of his idols, Jimi Hendrix, significant funding, among other things, the search for extraterrestrial life (23 mil. dollars to Seti Institute Carl Sagan) and a mysterious ICT companies, Transmeta, which is also a legend as its founder and then we'll see why ...

The accident record Moreover
Allen is very discreet person who does not like to talk about himself and it shows, about 10 years ago when, despite himself, stumbled into a legal mess. One of his secretary, the complaint for rape, is the time when it seems easy to get in the States (see Mike Tyson case) substantial damages with complaints like that.
But Allen is a public man and you think it will go, with its bevy of the best lawyers, all the way, without bargaining as it has always possible in the American system of Common Law.
I am convinced all the American media and global morbidly begin to follow the story.
You arrive at the date of the preliminary hearing where, according to American practice, the judge asks the parties to possibly end the game with an amount of compensation for all, is the practice, but Paul Allen is a public man, refuse to believe all, no doubt to protect his good name. The defense secretary
shoot, without conviction, a pro-forma figure ... ... .5 million dollars is just a pro forma. It expects the obvious
NO defenders of Paul Allen, the best of America.
And at this point something happens that is rarely seen and you will see in the judicial offices, Paul Allen's lawyers opened a briefcase, pulled out a check, fill out the figure and hands it to the judge who, incredulous, reads the amount! !
Fifteen million dollars!
We think of an error, but Allen's lawyers clarify.
They have had a clear mandate by their client's Paul Allen, had to pay 3 times the amount required by any other party to close, finally, the question there. Why
their client would not have had time to devote to each other! And he had better things to do ...
And certainly looking at his mega yacht (the largest in the world) to do things better than a court case it has!



the undersigned extender followed the story of this post, 10 years ago, on news websites and newspapers as Corriere and Repubblica who devoted ... and I remember it well ... really more of a reportage from the hearing in which described what happens.
One, very nice, even by one of the best Italian journalist, Vittorio Zucconi wrote really well.
In the news today, and it is quite disturbing, there is no trace anywhere. Try to find

... Allen is a very discreet and also search engines are ...

Allen, transmit and Linux
brings us to ... Transmeta society more important than Paul Allen continues, despite having officially left Microsoft, to keep one foot in the ICT world.
For years, before announcing to the public to produce low-power microprocessors is listed on Nasdaq, remains an impenetrable secret Transmeta around which accumulate rumors and mysteries.
It 's the company where he works, but looks a bit' cases of life, and since 1997, Linus Torvalds.
Yes, just that Linus Torvalds, the Architect (another one!) Of Linux to be clear, hired by former colleague Architect Paul Allen to a contract of millions of dollars.
Transmeta is said to be the company which programmers and technicians of the highest level separating them mostly to Microsoft's competitors.
E 'society that allows, for years a home page which is a masterpiece of anti-marketing.
E 'the company, as its main financier Allen does not like being talked about on the web ...
Among the legends that run through the maze of the network, there is one truly amazing ... probably the most amazing of all ... and this speaks volumes about the fact that the information contained on the Web and Web knows what they really are.
... however, was said, the most paradoxical legend circulating on the net is that anyone who writes to Paul Allen, his accident record, Transmeta, Linus Torvalds worked for Transmeta, which ... will receive a phone call from some mysterious emissary ... it will pay three times any amount to get rid of the news, or it will take, if technical ICT in Transmeta weight in gold!
And this is really unbelievable ...
Oops ... sorry for interrupting this post now ... but I will ring the phone ...

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2007 turnover of the major Italian operators

Here, as is tradition for the current month, the preview of the ranking of the top 10 IT companies prepared on the basis of data turnover (in million euro) in 2007 (source - Computer World Online).

an IBM 2007 Italy 1756 Italy 982
Accenture
2 3 4 HP Microsoft
786 Italian 745 732
Engineering Group
5 6 7 Elsag
EDS Italy 654 565 473
Almaviva
8 9 Group SIA-SSB 384 10
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It 'very interesting, even to some extent to understand the market trends, the latest figures compare with the trend of the years 2006 and 2005.

an IBM 2006 Italy 1811 Italy Accenture
2 798 3 Group
Almaviva 707
Microsoft
4 700 512 5 HP Italian
EDS Italy 6 499 426
Engineering Group
7 8 9
Enterprise Digital Architects 295 Atos Origin Italy
287 10 259 Value Team

2005

an IBM 1868
Italy Accenture Italy
2 689 3 541 Almaviva
4 HP EDS Italy Italian 485 474

5 6 7
Engineering Group 388 312 Atos Origin Italy
Siemens Business Services Group 8 Italy 284 9
Enterprise Digital Architects Oracle Italy 230 10 243

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Paradigm Information Technology and evolution towards SOA architectures WOA (Web Oriented Architecture)

It 's always interesting to observe the evolution of models with which developer, over the past decades have had to confront in the development and integration of applications and software platforms.
has passed, and after all it is, perhaps, the typical career path of those who, like myself, have spent just forty, from structured programming to object oriented programming .
remember (fondly!) The mythical Fortran 77, learned at university, which was "turning" on a UNIVAC 1100 in punched cards!
Paradigm Shift "revolutionary", on this programming mode, not all of our generation have also, in fact, done!
And speaking of memories we recall, even today, the efforts of individuals, as a tutor towards colleagues 'senior', COBOL, DOC, however, exceptional professionals, to convince them that the handling of a class, object, concepts of instances of classes, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism then would lead them to be masters of modern programming languages \u200b\u200band would make them, at least for certain types of applications and many considerably more productive.
remember well the questioning looks of some of those colleagues, for which the paradigm shift did not happen ...
That attitude there is often, even today, what was the next hop, and as many industry analysts rightly point out, for many organizations is still not done, or done in a very superficial and incomplete. As they say
very effectively the Anglo-Saxons:

"SOA is not working in Most organizations."

And these organizations, in which the SOA paradigms will not be approved or, perhaps, are the first level of integration, SOA, have one destiny on the horizon ...

will inevitably be far away, with heavy gap to be recovered from a stage, Instead, for many structures "enlightened" is already underway.
The Web Oriented Era.
phase and the subsequent architectural paradigms Service Oriented Architecture, in some ways already obsolete! The architecture was
WOA, Web Oriented Architecture
... Where the interaction, interoperability is and will be between all the generic resources ( Resources) and the engine mashup .
Engine Where are the core systems of interaction ...
Possibly workflow queues and aggregation / content transformation (Whether date - exposed via Web Services - or content - managed by feed RSS / RDF compliant !).
One of the most representative patterns of evolution in action is the figure below, which we owe to one of the top "gurus" and observers of the ongoing revolution, Dion Hinchcliffe.

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Web 2.0 and the Gartner Hype Cycle 2008

Among the technologies examined by experts from Gartner, one in particular has already achieved a degree of maturity that it now considered close to the final statement:

- Web 2.0

"The concepts of Web 2.0 has been adopted enthusiastically by the market consumer - according to analysts at Gartner - and this, as has already happened to other models and technologies will be a powerful driver for their dissemination within companies, where they are, however, already generated considerable interest.

One of the basic principles of Web 2.0 is the fact that through collaboration tools and applications such as:

- Blog
-
Wiki - Social Network
- Content tagging
- Mashup Tools

which undoubtedly foster collaboration participatory and are thus able, when properly applied, a significant improvement productivity among employees.

These instruments will ensure that within a few years might actually open up a new era characterized by the IT systems, applications and processes participant-driven. "