MS India forays into lifecycle management space

By agencies   |   Tuesday, 08 November 2005, 20:30 IST
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BANGALORE: Microsoft Corporation India has entered the lifecycle management space with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). The company's Hyderabad unit has played a significant role in developing a part of this product. Announcing this Microsoft Corporation India’s Business and Marketing Officer, Doug Hauger said, “This platform will help Indian developers to create applications on a global basis.” The company’s Hyderabad team was responsible for the development of an automated solution TeamBuild and also a source code management system, which are integral parts of VSTS. Microsoft India’s Managing Director, Neelam Dhawan said, “Lifecycle management has become necessary for IT companies. As India emerges as a software hub, developers require tools to increase their productivity.” The market for lifecycle management is huge in India and it will compete with IBM's Rational suite, and is collaborating with Borland for integrating lifecycle management tools. Apart from this 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. The company announced that about 15 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.