Posted by : Anonymous on Jan 10, 2006 - 10:45 PM General

At the Oracle Open World Conference in Mumbai, Oracle President Charles Phillips announced today that the database software company is ramping up the expansion of its operations in India. Among its plans are an expansion from 6 to 15 cities, an increase in staff from 8,600 to 10,000 and increased investment in e-governance.
Over the next eight months, Oracle plans to increase its presence into nine non-metro cities: Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Lucknow, Pune and Vishakhapatnam. With the new locations, Oracle will hire some 1,400 new employees. With increased presence in these areas, Oracle hopes to add to its business partners in the country.
Oracle is also currently working with 28 Indian state governments to develop, test and deploy e-government projects in the country. The software company said it is currently engaged in more than a hundred Indian government projects.
Oracle has had a presence in India for 19 years, and its India Development Center, established in 1994, is the company's largest R&D centre outside the US. The software company claims to have invested nearly $2bn in India over the last five years.(Distributed for Digitalmediaasia.com via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com)) .END (C)2006 Digitalmediaasia.com..