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Sun targets 70 per cent growth rate in Indian business
Kavitha Rajasekhar
Bangalore: Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd is looking at an over 70 per cent growth rate in India, driven primarily by the company's products and education services segment. The company had drawn up strategic market plans to grow and catalyse the market, and invest in increasing product/market coverage, development initiatives, technical education programs, etc, according to Sun Microsystems India managing director, Bhaskar Pramanik. Sun has also inaugurated its single largest engineering center outside of the US in Bangalore in which all six key divisions of Sun would be represented. The India engineering facility would see a product through its entire life cycle of design, development, testing, maintenence and customer support, said the company's vice president and general manager Solaris Software Anil Gadre. "The focus will be on new product developments across our product range. We are also planning on filing for patents on some products developed at the center," Gadre said. On the new productsdevelopment front, Gadre added that Solaris, iPlanet, system management, service related software development and storage management software would be the high growth areas. Incidentally, the India engineering center is looking at going from a 300 member team to almost 1,000 people by 2003. Copyright © 2000 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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