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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (984)	3/1/2000 9:58:00 PM
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OT Microsoft to plough $3 mn more into SDC Mar 02, 2000 T Radhakrishna Hyderabad: Buoyed by success in its first year of operations, Microsoft India Development Center, the software giant's only other development center outside Redmond, US, is strengthening its operations by bolstering its infrastructure and recruiting more software professionals. "We have already begun the exercise, for which we are putting in approximately $3 million as part of our expansion program in the second year. This is similar to the investment in the first year," said Srini Koppulu, General Manager of Microsoft India Development Center. >The 50 member center began its operations from Cyber Towers at Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad in November 1998. Koppulu said, "We are happy with our performance in the first year, and are working on a wide range of products. Be it Microsoft Redmond or Hyderabad, our objectives are the same -- to conceive, architect, design, develop, test, and deliver the world's best products and solutions." "Our mission is to develop software for personal computers and Internet related technologies that reach out to millions of customers and empower and enrich the lives of people," he said. Currently, the Hyderabad center is working on four products. Windows services for Unix is one of the strategic products that is under development and the second is Beta. Some of features this product provides -- like NFS, Active Directory based unified account management and password synchronization - address the interoperability needs of corporations as they move to the Microsoft Windows platform from Unix environments. Another team is developing platform components for COM+, the next generation of COM, which will make it simple for developers to rapidly develop software components in a programming language of their choice. This group is developing a comprehensive framework using cutting edge technologies. Yet another team is working on Windows Distributed Enterprise Management, and is developing key parts of the infrastructure. It will be using technologies like XML/XSL, WMI, Active Directory, COM/COM+. A fourth team is developing an integral component for the future version of MS-Office. Koppulu, who was with the company's Redmond center for nine years before coming to India, added: "We are recruiting 50 professionals by mid-2000 and want to grow further to meet our objectives." -Express Computers