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To: Hardware Heister who wrote (10877)4/8/1998 8:36:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Respond to of 13949
 
Re: CA buying a Y2K company in India

Did a quick search of "CA" and "India" and found this:

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CA Sets Up Shop In India
Computer Associates (CA), the $ 3.5-billion US-based software company, which till now had been operating in India through partners, has set up a liaison office in Mumbai. The office is CA's first direct presence in the country, and the company is also expected to open offices in Bangalore and Delhi.

CA till now had two partners-Mumbai-based Mastek for its Ingres RDBMS and Bangalore-based IMR for CA-Realia, the COBOL PC workbench technology. The company has also appointed Bangalore-based DEIL and Mumbai-based L&T to distribute its Unicenter TNG, an RDBMS product, in the country. Besides, it has also signed up an agreement with Infosys Technologies wherein CA will provide a wide variety of software tools to Infosys for its mainframes. VENTURING INTO APPLICATION DVELOPMENT: M Surendran, Technical Director, COSOFT.

Source:
dqindia.com

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Seems to me they would choose those other two companies before SYNT, if anyone at all.

- Jeff