And Vatsaloo returns from Baan Borang this month and will soon be planning his next trip.
She is only one of the benefactors who signed on to help Baan Borang.
The result: Growth of new license fees at Baan dropped from 65% in 1997 to 23% this year.
Today you reach Baan Borang over a paved road instead of taking your chances on a winding, rutted 12-kilometer jeep track.
Now the silks of Baan Borang are no longer the somewhat old-fashioned bright colors and designs of the area.
But the slight, soft-spoken Vatsaloo credits the people of Baan Borang most.
They also tapped friends of friends in the rural village of Baan Chang to set up operations for the company.
After selling that company, Delivanis cross paths with MR Rangaswami who had been an executive at Baan, a business software company.
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After the presentation a young woman began asking him about Baan Borang.
By 2001, the thinking goes, these companies will be ready to upgrade -- and chances are good they'll stick with Baan and PeopleSoft.
By 1987 he was bringing clothing and medicine to Baan Borang and then hand-packing a few silk items on each trip to sell door-to-door back in Singapore.
Vatsaloo has now been to Baan Borang almost 60 times, each time bringing something of value, from school supplies and health care information to energetic friends wanting to help.
Looking for what to do with himself, he stumbled across the people of Baan Borang in his own back yard, befriending a group of workers in his neighborhood.
SAP, Oracle, Baan and the like grew nearly 50% a year in the past three years, but this year the growth rate has fallen by more than half.
And this week we caught up with photographer Iwan Baan, who took the iconic photo of a darkened lower Manhattan that graced the cover of New York magazine.
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Enterprise software from firms such as SAP, Oracle and Baan has factories and accounting departments running smoothly, more or less, but marketing is still in a digital dark age.
Now Vatsaloo, 52, is the proprietor of a small gallery outside Singapore's Little India, Isan, where he sells the shimmering silks of Baan Borang as shawls, table runners, slipcovers and purses.
It also included a house for Srithap and his family, a central decorative pond and a guest house for the increasing number of visitors enchanted by Vatsaloo's stories of life in Baan Borang.
In the process he has become Baan Borang's impresario, tour leader and economic development agency, collecting donations and rounding up professionals from around the world to take part in his vision by contributing their time and expertise.
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