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IBM launches academic program in India
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Friday, 01 April 2005, 20:30 IST |
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BANGALORE:In a bid to bridge the skill gap in the information technology sector, IBM today launched its academic initiative program in India that will cover 75,000 students in 300 institutes across the country.
The pilot of the program is on in nine institutes across India and by 2005-end it will cover 300 institutes and 75,000 students, Managing Director of IBM India Shanker Annaswamy said.
As part of the program, IBM will work with universities that support open standards and seek to use open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes, he said.
The company will make available more than 40 IBM technologies at no charge for integration into college curricula.
It will also offer hardware products, including the newest POWER5 servers and blade servers featuring latest power architecture, at special rates.
"The access to larget Power 5 servers will be made available through IBM's remote access program, including recently announced IBM Virtual Loaner Program within the IBM Virtual Innovation Center," Annaswamy said.
He said there were 2,50,000 IT students graduating every year in India while the demand was for 4,00,000 and this initiative would try to bridge the manpower shortfall of the IT industry.