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Internet seen 3-5 years away  On-tap Internet seen 3-5 years
away  February 04, 2003 12:53 IST  When will software become a
utility, the way you get water when you turn on the tap?  Deb
Mukherjee, chief technology officer of Cognizant and one of the
main crystal ball gazers in the field, posed this question and
gave his answer in two parts.  First, we are not there yet and
second, maybe we will get there in three to five years. He was
addressing a group of his peers in the city described as the
fourth biggest software cluster in the world.  What held the
attention of his audience was as much the fascinating journey
that software must undertake to reach the holy grail of total
indispensability as the attendant question: will getting there
be a good thing?  The answer is that it will be good for you and
me, maybe for the country at large and IT in general, but will
likely not please the entrepren