That amount will come from the savings HP will get since it is now using e-speak internally. It will also come from additional sales from servers, solutions and storage as more of HP's customers use e-speak. That amount will grow exponentially in the next three years, marking Gupta's resurrection after five years of laboring to develop e-speak. I'm confident that won't happen.'' Double hmmm. That's exactly what Scott McNealy said, but while his ''army of Java developers'' were able to get out of the barracks, they never made it out of the foxhole.
Skepticism is good.
But I'm convinced e-speak will revolutionize the digital economy,'' he said. E-speak's strength is the use of Java, Wireless Application Protocol, XML and other standards. Gupta, and possibly the rest of the industry, believe XML is the way to go. And HP is shifting to high gear in expectation of getting its own army of e-speak developers. Bangalore, HP officials say, is a logical place to set up the center since its software and services industry is growing at an annual rate of 60 percent.