Sun Microsystems and India's privately held MindTree Consulting on Thursday announced in Bangalore a partnership to offer web service solutions based on Sun's Open Network Environment technology platform. Web services enable companies to automate business processes over the Internet by seamlessly tying up different types of software programs and computers. Sun's ONE platform is akin to rival Microsoft's NET software strategy.
Sun officials said MindTree would house one of the network computer giant's four competency centres in Asia on the Sun ONE platform, and its expertise could be tapped to help customers across the globe.
"The skillsets that MindTree brings to the table are important... so we want to maximize it as much as we can," Barbara Gordon, senior vice-president at the iPlanet unit of Sun Microsystems, told a news conference. Under its web service strategy, Sun, which makes large network computers, is working with two of its units: iPlanet, which makes network software for specific tasks, and Forte, which makes software tools that help tie up different types of software.
MindTree Consulting has raised nearly $24 million in the past two years and its investors include US-based Walden International and Capital Group. Bureau Report