Nadeem Malik, the CTO of Pakistan’s oldest software company, tells an interesting story about his company, Systems Pvt. Ltd, a software development and system integration company formed in 1976. The tale has it that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s current president and CEO, was visiting Lahore, Pakistan, in the late 1970s to attend a wedding of one of his roommates at Stanford University, a Pakistani. The gentleman happened to know Malik and his associates, who had just opened shop in Lahore, and asked Ballmer to visit them while he was there.
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Posted by: Athar Osama May 17, 2005 05:00 AMNadeem Malik, the CTO of Pakistan’s oldest software company, tells an interesting story about his company, Systems Pvt. Ltd, a software development and system integration company formed in 1976. The tale has it that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s current president and CEO, was visiting Lahore, Pakistan, in the late 1970s to attend a wedding of one of his roommates at Stanford University, a Pakistani. The gentleman happened to know Malik and his associates, who had just opened shop in Lahore, and asked Ballmer to visit them while he was there.