Sun Microsystems Inc reckons there’s gold in them thar hills the hills of central southern India, that is – and has teamed up with local company Wipro Infotech Pte Ltd in Bangalore, Karnataka with the aim of expanding both their positions as India’s leading workstation and server supplier, Newsbytes reports. Sun entered the Indian market in 1987 via a simple distribution agreement with Wipro Infotech, which is ranked number two in the Indian computer market. Since then, the relationship has blossomed to the point where Sun workstations and servers distributed by Wipro are regarded as occupying the number one sales spot. The new company, Wipro Network Systems Pte Ltd will operate as a subsidiary of Wipro Infotech. It will employ 160 and aims to promote the sale of Sun’s hardware with third-party software on the OEM market, and through value-added resellers and general dealers. It was Wipro that scored the big win for Sun at the Bombay Stock Exchange and also at the Unit Trust of India, fighting off fierce competition from the likes of IBM Corp – through Tata Information Systems Pte Ltd, and from Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp.
