NEC Corp has joined the rush to tap the newly liberalised Indian market with plans to market its UP4800 R-series RISC-based Unix servers there; the company says it hopes to place 1,000 of the boxes there over the next four years. NEC’s move follows a recent sales agreement between its subsidiary in Singapore and Tata Elxsi Pte Ltd, the computer sales firm based in southernBangalore, Reuter reports. Under the agreement, NEC will supply servers to Tata Elxsi for sale in India through NEC Singapore.NEC has sold five general-purpose mainframes to government-related organisations in India, but has not sold smaller machines.
