I must meet Vardhan from DNA and thank him for all the rock groups he has managed to bring into Bangalore. I grew up in the 80's listening to some of these bands. It was not too easy at that time to imagine that you would see Uriah Heep live or Mark Knoffler playing live. At that time my reasoning was more to do with branding of the Indian audience to this music. My reasoning was that these bands would not even know that they had a fan base in India. Which was probably true in some cases. I guess the breaking down of walls around the world helped in getting the word out to these folks on the demand in India

Later when DNA started getting these bands into India one started to hear about the thousand ton equipment that they lug around just so they can do a show which lasted a couple of hours. I wonder how many folks listening to Knoffler croon Romeo and Juliet thought about all the effort which went in to getting the infrastructure setup so one could experience this:)

I recently read an article on Joel's - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html)

which outlined a role 'management' needs to adopt in software companies. The article encourages 'management' to take on the responsibility of creating what they call the 'Development Abstraction Layer'. Essentially allowing project teams to concentrate on what they need to do - create excellent software solutions to business problems, and taking away all the 'noise' associated with providing them the infrastructure to do so.