It has taken 25 years of often frustrating effort to get where it wanted to be, but India is finally being recognised as a first rank location for software development, and its latest win is Informix Software Inc, Menlo Park, which has just opened a new worldwide software development centre in Bombay – with help from ICL Plc’s Indian affiliate Fujitsu-ICIM Pvt Ltd. It describes the new base as a critical extension of its research and development efforts, and will become its largest outside the US – the others are in Tokyo and Dublin. The centre will be responsible for design, development, conversion and maintenance of Informix database products and application development tools for sale worldwide. It plans to invest $12m to $15m in it by 1998.
