Stories by John Ribeiro

Scotland aims to attract Indian outsourcers

Scotland aims to get Indian outsourcers to set up call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) centers in the country, by offering staff with multilingual capabilities.

Brocade sets up R&D center in India

Brocade Communications Systems has established a research and development (R&D) center in Bangalore, India. The new center will focus on the development of infrastructure software, and software for storage applications, and data mobility applications, Zahid Hussain, Brocade's vice president of engineering, said Wednesday.

Wipro's quarterly revenue, profits up

India's third largest outsourcer, Wipro, Thursday reported growth in revenue and profit, although like other Indian outsourcers, it too was affected by the appreciation of the Indian rupee against the U.S. dollar.

McNealy says Sun evaluating OpenSolaris on GPL

Sun Microsystems is evaluating whether it should release OpenSolaris under the GNU GPL (general public license), company co-founder and chairman, Scott McNealy told reporters in Bangalore on a conference call Wednesday.

Red Hat creates global services center in India

Red Hat has set up a global services centre in India that will assist its customers with deploying open-source technologies. The centre will hire about 100 staff over the next 12 months.

Infosys' revenues to reach $US4 billion this year

Infosys Technologies, India's second largest software and services outsourcer, announced Friday that it expected its revenue to grow by 28 to 30 percent to about $US4 billion in its current fiscal year ending March 31 next year.

EMC partners with NIIT to bridge storage training gap

EMC has partnered with Indian training company NIIT to train storage professionals in 32 countries. The alliance is the first of its kind by EMC, and aims to fill a shortage of storage and information management professionals worldwide, Manoj Chugh, EMC's country manager for India, said on Tuesday.

EDS acquiring Indian testing company

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) is acquiring RelQ Software Pvt. Ltd., a privately owned software testing company in Bangalore, India, to strengthen its global testing capabilities by offering applications testing, validation and verification, and quality assurance services.

Ingres, Wipro team on open source enterprise software

Indian outsourcer Wipro is to develop open-source business software and offer system integration services around the open-source database from software vendor Ingres, which will be marketed jointly by the two companies.

Internet is a reflection of society, Cerf says

The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it, said Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf said in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes.

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