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(From left) Ms Sheila Gulati, Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd; Ms Neelam Dhawan, Managing Director; and Mr Douglas Hauger, Business and Marketing Officer, Microsoft India, at a press conference in Bangalore on Monday. - G. R.N. Somashekar

Bangalore , Nov. 7

MICROSOFT Corporation India has entered the lifecycle management space with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). The company's Hyderabad unit developed a part of this product.

"This platform will help Indian developers create applications on a global basis," said Mr Doug Hauger, Business and Marketing Officer, Microsoft Corporation India, at a conference held here.

A 35-member team at Hyderabad was responsible for the development of an automated solution TeamBuild and also a source code management system, which are integral parts of VSTS. This is included in the enterprise-ready development platform Visual Studio 2005.

Lifecycle management has become necessary for IT companies. As India emerges as a software hub, developers here demand tools to help them increase their productivity, said Ms Neelam Dhawan, Managing Director, Microsoft India.

"The market for lifecycle management is huge in the country," said Ms Sheila Gulati, Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism. It will be competing with IBM's Rational suite, and is collaborating with Borland for integrating lifecycle management tools.

The company has also launched, worldwide, latest versions of the database software SQL Server 2005 and development tool Visual Studio 2005. A new product BizTalk Server 2006 was introduced. This helps enterprises monitor, manage and deploy their mission critical business processes. Twelve new integration adapters will be included to give customers native inter-operability to PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle Database and Oracle Business suite.

It announced that more than 15 independent software vendors, systems integrators and training companies such as HP, Infosys, NIIT, Satyam and TCS would roll out products, services and programs to support the new platform. Express editions of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 are available for free. These are targeted at the student and hobby-developer community.

Global unit shares of SQL server, according to the company, were higher than competing platforms. While IBM had 72,000 units, Oracle had 245,000 and Microsoft's SQL server has taken the lead of the enterprise database market with 406,000 units.

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