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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (3789)	2/22/1999 2:21:00 PM
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Mohan: Interesting news about Microsoft certification! Indians outdo Americans at Microsoft's toughest course Our New Delhi Bureau 1 FEBRUARY We've done it again! Indians minds have stolen a march over American minds in the infotech world. According to statistics released by Microsoft, Indians have outnumbered Americans in getting certifications in one of Microsoft's toughest programmes - Microsoft Certified System Developer (MCSD). From July 1998 till today, the Indian arm of Microsoft has statistics of 2,562 certifications in MCSD from India while the US has only 1,247. During this period, countries like the UK and Japan have reported only 221 and 257 certifications respectively. Importantly, these numbers have come from mere certification (examination) sites. There are 60 in India compared to a whopping 1290 sites in the US. This, according to Microsoft experts, means that for practically all Microsoft's certifications, in India, the utilisation per site is much higher than that in the US. Also, these statistics have placed India on a stronger footing in Microsoft's future strategies compared to many developed countries. The company is considering opening up more centres in India to tap skilled manpower. According to Microsoft's Mr Amit Srivastava, if a similar number of sites were available to Indians, the number would far exceed that of the US in other programmes as well like Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE). ''Bill Gates, during his visit to India, had said India would lead in systems development within the next three years to five years. Today, the main constraint in India is the availability of certification sites," Mr Srivastava said. "This is the primary reason why USA still leads in the MCSE course despite the site utilisation in India being 50 students per site compared to mere 15 in the US,'' he added. Microsoft, say sources, is planning to open new centres in India to tap the growing potential. ''We have decided to move downstream to mini-metros to establish our certification sites. Microsoft is already well established in metros and we would like to extend centres to mini-metros. India is poised to meet the global manpower requirement of the IT world,'' Mr Srivastava said. MCSD is a certified Microsoft certification, which the company claims, is globally acceptable and recoqnised. The certification means that a student has passed a set of online (adaptive) tests in certification test centres.