Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Aug 15, 2002
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Software Corporate - Outlook Microsoft lines up big plans for Hyderabad centre Our Bureau
CHENNAI, Aug. 14 MICROSOFT Corporation is on track to invest $75 million in three years, starting last year, in its Hyderabad product development centre. "We may even invest more in the R&D centre," said Mr S.S. Somasegar, Corporate Vice- President, Windows Engineering Solutions & Services, Microsoft Corporation. Without divulging any figures, he said, the investment would be mostly on people. The company is also on track to recruit 300 people for the centre by end 2003, from the present 150, he added. Based at the company's headquarters, Redmond, US, Mr Somasegar is responsible for the overall project and release management of the Microsoft Windows family of products. He also overseas the company's R&D centre in Hyderabad, which focuses more on delivering Net-related solutions. In an informal chat with newspersons here, Mr Somasegar said that the company plans to leverage more on the Indian talent. "If you ask whether we have leveraged the Indian talent compared to other firms, the answer is no. However, in future, we intend to leverage a lot more the vast pool of Indian resources. We are trying to figure out as to how we can use the Indian resources, not only in product development, but in other areas including consulting and in the company's internal applications." According to Mr Somasegar, a few days ago, the Hyderabad centre rolled out VJ# (Visual J#), a development tool for Java-language developers building applications and services on the Microsoft .NET framework. The VJ# was missing in Visual Studio (Visual Studio .NET empowers developers to design broad-reach Web applications for any device and on any platform). Microsoft now provides the VJ# as an add-on to Visual Studio, he added. The launch of Visual J# .NET signals the completion and availability of all the Microsoft programming languages within Visual Studio .NET, including Visual C++ .NET, Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET, he said. Mr Somasegar said that Microsoft intends to make Hyderabad "a critical and the most important product centre for the company". "We are working seriously to achieve that," he added.
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