Microsoft, Compaq Plan Showcasing Centres
Global computing majors Microsoft Corp and Compaq Computer plans to make investments in India to help Indian business and software developers use the Internet for strategic gain. With this, both companies plan to host technology showcasing centres at various leading software technology parks across the country.
Balu Doraisamy, managing director, Compaq India said: "This will deliver true non-stop business capability to the Indian market, a critical success factor in the Internet economy."
The partnership brings together Compaq's technologies and services with Microsoft's leadership in operating systems and applications to deliver powerful IT solutions. This, in turn, will support business from hand-held personal computing to global, enterprise-wide computing systems.
Sanjay Mirchandani, managing director, Microsoft Corp India Pvt Ltd said, "With the Internet revolution knocking at our doorstep, Indian enterprises, developers and end consumers can now leverage the combined strength of leading Internet technologies along with the rest of the world."
A Compaq-Microsoft competency centre would be set up in Bangalore "as proof of concept" for high-end technology, like clustering, load balancing and inter-operability between platforms including Windows, Novell Netware and Tru 64 Unix.
Terming this arrangement as an extension of the worldwide frontline partnership between the two, a joint statement issued by the companies said: "This Indian alliance is a result of a synthesis of Microsoft's `business Internet' vision and Compaq's `non-stop e-business' offering.
The partnership will target enterprises, small and medium businesses and the developer community in India to communicate the advantages of the Window 2000-Compaq platform.
They are also planning an aggressive joint marketing campaign comprising reseller training events and a pan-India customer road show to educate audiences. Product bundling programmes priced for small and medium businesses and a joint awareness building advertising campaign are also planned. Over the past two decades, Compaq and Microsoft have shared technology and engineering resources in developing and advancing the Windows 95 and 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems.