-Computer Associates sees growth from India
'Software developers touch 6.5 lakh'
Hyderabad: The large community of software developers is the backbone for open source code and their number is increasing every year, according to Executive Vice-President of Sun Microsystems Rich Green.
Talking to presspersons after the inauguration of the seventh edition of Sun Tech Days here on Feb 27, Mr. Green said that open source was all about participation and the developer population in India alone touched 6, 52,610. 'Open opportunities', the theme for the Sun Tech Days, provided a platform for the developers to understand the technology to move to the next level by collaborating, contributing and competing. The company was organising the Tech Days in the wake of completion of its acquisition of Swedish company for US $ I billion, My SQL, an open source database tool -- a combination of operating system, application software, web-oriented data base, and wherever required, the hardware to run all this.
Computer Associates sees growth from India
Mumbai: Yet another American IT company Computer Associates (CA) marketing itself hard in India to counter the sluggish growth in the US. Don Friedman, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, CA, knows the Indian market is opening up and he wants to warm up to the potential clients to make most of an almost $10 billion opportunity.
CA says it will team up with local partners Wipro, TCS and Infosys to make its presence felt in India especially to crack open government opportunities like the railways.It is not difficult to understand why India is the new focus market for Global IT biggies like CA, IBM, SAP or Oracle.According to Gartner the IT budgets are increasing by only 2-3 per cent in markets like US whereas Asian markets like India and China are clocking over 12-13 per cent growth in their IT budgets that can only increase going forward.
It is not only the domestic market, which is luring companies like CA to India, thanks to the skill set availability, India is fast turning into an R&D hub as well.CA for instance has a third of its R&D workforce of 1700 employees based out of Hyderabad who help run its global operations. Clearly, for CA India is a strategic market on the global IT landscape.
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