Sixto B. Rado www.sixto.tk

Como comente en un artículo anterior este moderno Rey Midas convierte todo lo que toca en oro.

La revista Forbes realizo un artículo muy interesante el cual copio a continuación:

Carlos Slim Helu's fortune is up almost $20 billion in a year, built amid poverty and resentment in Mexico. Now he's gaining on Warren Buffett.
Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, the industrial titan whose holdings span telecom, banking, energy, tobacco and more, has built unimaginable wealth in one of the poorer countries in the Western Hemisphere. In the past year his fortune, now approaching $50 billion, has grown by $19 billion, an increase that eclipses any gain by any other billionaire in the past decade. He reigns as the third-richest person in the world on the 21st annual FORBES billionaires list. Slim (both his family surname and his nickname) is tantalizingly close to surpassing the wealth of the storied Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) of Omaha, Warren Buffett, the sage investor who has been number two to his protégé and pal, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Bill Gates, since 2001 .
Slim, 67, amassed his pile in a nation where per capita income is less than $6,800 a year and half the population lives in poverty. His wealth comes to 6.3% of Mexico's annual economic output; if Gates had a similar chunk in the U.S., he'd be worth $784 billion. It's enough to give any populist heartburn.
In Hong Kong, perhaps, or even Finland, Slim would be heralded as a striving champion of capitalism, a self-made billionaire celebrated for employing 218,000 workers and for pushing his country into the modern age. But not in Mexico, where the media and the masses long have held a sneaking suspicion that there is something shady about Slim. He is decried as a rapacious monopolist who built his empire on cozy ties to Mexican presidents and other politicians.
Last year a cartoon in La Reforma, a center-right newspaper, depicted an oversize Slim in a boxing ring, splayed on his back and squashing a tiny opponent. The ring ropes were phone lines, an allusion to Slim's control of Telmex, with a 90% share of the landline phone business, and América Móvil, with a 73% share of the market for cell phone service. The caption: "Billion Dollar Baby." Slim has been pilloried on TV in La Verdad Sea Dicha ("Truth Be Told" ), a political-platform show from a defeated opposition-party candidate for president who had befriended, then betrayed Slim. In one segment a news anchor angrily shoves a pie into the mouth of a papier maché Slim, mocking him as a gluttonous, insatiable tyrant. Never mind that, in 40 years of business in Mexico, Slim isn't known ever to have been formally investigated, indicted, convicted or otherwise sullied in regard to bribery, influence peddling or any other scandal. For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.
As the best-known patriarch among the ruling families that dominate the Mexican economy, he draws the most fire for the distinctly Mexican form of crony capitalism that pervades the national economy. The cement industry is largely controlled by one player--Cemex (nyse: CX - news - people )--and its billionaire chief, Lorenzo Zambrano. Mexico has two national television networks, run by the country's ruling elite--TV Azteca, run by Ricardo Salinas Pliego; and Grupo Televisa (nyse: TV - news - people ), controlled by Emilio Azcárraga Jean, favorite son of the Azcárraga clan. Even tortillas are a monopoly market, controlled by the González Barrera family's Gruma, which has a 71% share of sales. In January people protested in the streets of Mexico City after tortilla prices doubled.
"Mexico has a dense, intricate web of connections and personal ties between the government and the business class," says Denise Dresser, a Slim basher who teaches political science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). "This ends up creating a government that doesn't defend the public interest, that isn't willing to go out and regulate in the name of the consumer," she says. "But it is rather willing to help its friends, its allies and, in some cases, its business partners thrive at the expense of the Mexican people."
Slim insists he is unfazed by the criticism. "When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered." At one point in a three-hour interview in his yawning, unadorned office in a three-story building in a tony enclave in Mexico City, he produces prepared talking points to rebut the notion that he is a monopolist. Sample page: "There are actually 44 concessions that offer long distance, 26 for local service and 10 for mobile service.… Telmex is not a company that has monopolistic practices."
Does he protest too much? Some people who know him well say Slim stings from the carping--and that he intends to do something about it. "He's like everyone else. He doesn't like to be criticized. He's a sensitive person who wants to do the right thing," says AT&T (nyse: T - news - people ) Chairman Edward E. Whitacre Jr., who has known Slim since buying a 10% stake in Telmex in 1990 (the $1 billion investment turned into more than $10 billion). "I think he wants to be remembered as someone who did something good for his fellow man," Whitacre says.
Lately Carlos Slim has taken up a particular interest in philanthropy, a pursuit he had neglected for most of the years he was building his businesses. He formed a foundation 23 years ago and funded it with a few million, and it has done little since then. A year ago Slim infused it with $1.8 billion; in the fall he pledged to donate up to $10 billion to the foundation in the next four years to fund health and education programs.
"My new job is to focus on the development and employment of Latin America," he says proudly. Yet even his philanthropic ambitions are greeted with wariness, or outright derision, by some in Slim's home country. ITAM professor Dresser goaded him in a newsweekly commentary for failing to give even more: "The day that you give 80% of your personal fortune to an unselfish cause is the day that I will become your champion." Michael Layton, director of the Philanthropy & Civil Society Project at ITAM, explains: "In Mexico, the perception is that public deeds are done for personal gain."

Fuente:
http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0326/134.html

El nuevo directivo tendrá a su cargo el manejo local de clientes de pequeñas y medianas empresas, prospectos, alianzas y canales.

“Para SAP es un verdadero orgullo tener en el equipo a Ricardo Anjel, quien además de su amplia experiencia laboral, aportará a las operaciones de la compañía sus conocimientos del mercado local”, aseguró Fernando Rubio, Director General de SAP Andina y del Caribe.

Ricardo Anjel fue Country Manager para Colombia en Computer Associates; Channel & Alliance Manager en Avantel y Country Manager de Lotus (IBM) para Colombia y Ecuador, entre otros cargos.

El nuevo Director de SME de SAP, estudió Sistemas en la Universidad Politécnico Grancolombiano y realizó una especialización en Mercadeo en Eafit

Su reto es dirigir un equipo de alto impacto y por supuesto liderar el mercado en ventas.

Fuente:
http://www.tecnologia.com.pe/descripcion.php?id=1867&sec=15

Durante 2006 SAP Perú incrementó en más del 100% su cartera de clientes, la mayoría de ellos del sector pymes. Hoy en día el 35% de sus ingresos provienen de este sector.

SAP viene implementando una estrategia muy enfocada al desarrollo de la mediana y pequeña empresa y para ello ha invertido más de US$500 millones en el desarrollo de nuevos productos y aplicaciones de gestión para el sector, por la potencialidad que este segmento representa y Perú no es la excepción.

“El sector de software en Perú cerró 2006 con US$85 millones creciendo 15.5% con relación al año anterior. Se espera que en el 2007 la industria alcance los US$91 millones” comentó Ricardo Gargurevich Gerente de Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas de SAP Perú.

Los analistas internacionales señalan que el retorno de la inversión en software para la pequeña empresa se ve en cuatro años y medio, y para la mediana empresa puede tardar uno o dos años. Por ello resulta atractivo para el mercado invertir en tecnología.

Ricardo Gargurevich señaló además, que este año las Pymes que están creciendo y demandarán más software de gestión provienen del sector hotelero, industrias de autos, mediana minería, agroindustrias y textiles.

Fuente:
http://www.tecnologia.com.pe/descripcion.php?id=1863&sec=15

No sé si alguno recuerde un programa de TV que el canal 4 lanzó con bombos y platillos en 1998, y que según anunciaban rivalizaría internacionalmente con el conocido programa de Don Francisco “Sábado Gigante”. En fin, todo un show mediático montado varios meses antes del estreno de “Feliz Domingo”, este programa fue conducido por los gemelos Romero, que en ese entonces ya habían ganada cierta popularidad por las payasadas que hicieron durante su programa “De 2 a 4”.

Al final todo resulto en un oneroso gasto de producción que no convenció al público. El bajo nivel de sintonía hizo que el programa fuera cancelado al poco tiempo. Lo curioso es que yo tampoco recordaría este programa tan vividamente si no fuera por la chica que hacia felices mis domingos. Me refiero a la escultural…que digo…uhm…en realidad ese adjetivo es muy mezquino para ella, quizás términos como monumental o apoteósica podrían ser mejores descriptores de este ángelito.



La imagen la obtuve en:
http://www.members.tripod.com/genteperu/concursos/chica1.html

Dejando de lado las historias turbias que por ahí se comentan, que si Carlitos se valió de favores políticos para adquirir TELMEX a precio de remate. No se puede negar que este astuto zorro tiene un olfato único para los negocios que lo ha llevado a incrementar su fortuna exponencialmente en estos últimos años. Según Forbes en su Ranking de los más ricos correspondiente al 2007:

1 William Gates III United States 51 56.0 United States
2 Warren Buffett United States 76 52.0 United States
3 Carlos Slim Helu Mexico 67 49.0 Mexico
4 Ingvar Kamprad & family Sweden 80 33.0 Switzerland
5 Lakshmi Mittal India 56 32.0 United Kingdom
6 Sheldon Adelson United States 73 26.5 United States
7 Bernard Arnault France 58 26.0 France
8 Amancio Ortega Spain 71 24.0 Spain
9 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong 78 23.0 Hong Kong
10 David Thomson & family Canada 49 22.0 Canada

(Obvio que expresado en miles de millones de dólares gringos)

Crecimiento de la fortuna de Slim en los últimos años:

AÑO FORTUNA RANKING
2007 49.0 mil millones 3
2006 30.0 mil millones 3
2005 23.8 mil millones 4
2004 13.9 mil millones 17
2003 7.4 mil millones 35