Mr Hunt said the focus of investments would include areas like global business systems, global delivery model, professional service components, storage, Internet data centres and ERP systems. He said the company would also focus on education by setting up web-based training centres.

Earlier briefing the media in Bangalore on Tuesday, Mr Hunt said India would receive $30 million of the total investment earmarked for Asia Pacific. Of the $30 million, $10 million would be invested in logistics and other infrastructure while the rest would be spent on technology initiatives that would deliver cutting-edge services to SunSpectrun customers.

The investment would also cover people besides setting up 25 training centres across the country. ``We will also expand the company's central support hub to five zonal locations. In India, the company will increase its technical resources by expanding our team of Sun Certified Partner Engineers to 300 within two years,'' Mr Hunt said.

The investment would also go into setting up customer care organisations, people, processes, infrastructure and spares, he said.Sun Microsystems India managing director Bhaskar Pramanik said since 1998, the company had invested a total of $80 million in India. During the last fiscal (July-June) the company trained over 40,000 people through its 50 training centres spread in 18 cities across the country. Globally, Sun Microsystems has over 1500 training centres and last year the company trained 250, 000 people. During the last fiscal the company posted a global revenue of $15.7 billion.

Sun Microsystems global customer care programmes -- SunSpectrum Platinum & SunSpectrum Gold -- would now be available in India, Mr Pramanik said. To support these initiatives, the company would expand its logistics network at an investment of $5 million, he said.