John Ribeiro

CollabNet Inc. may put some of its core software under an open source license, or under a dual-licensing model, to promote its adoption by users, an executive said.

IBM Corp. will invest US$6 billion in India over the next three years, the company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Samuel Palmisano announced Tuesday in Bangalore, India. The company is encouraged by the opportunity presented by the Indian market as well as the role Indian talent can play in making IBM a global enterprise, Palmisano said.

India's National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) is setting up a watchdog organization that will focus on the introduction and monitoring of best data security and privacy practices in the country's IT services, call centre and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries.

Dell Inc. is setting up a team in Bangalore, India, to design enterprise servers and storage products, a company executive said Friday. The center will do full system design of enterprise and storage products, which will address the design of the board, the BIOS, the chassis, the system's thermal characteristics and acoustics, and software porting.

Google India Code Jam 2006, a coding contest for developers, had more than 14,000 participants, Google Inc. announced Friday and also named the contest's winners. This is the second year that Google, based in Mountain View, California, has organized this contest in India. A spin-off benefit from the contest is that it can help to identify top programmers who could be hired for the company's research and development organization.

NetCustomer Inc. Tuesday announced customized support services for users of Oracle Corp.'s PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards enterprise applications. Down the line, it also plans to offer support services to users of applications from SAP AG of Walldorf, Germany, said Punita Pandey, netCustomer's chief executive officer, in an interview.

U.S. President George Bush ruled out protectionist measures by the U.S. to counter the loss of jobs in the country because of offshore outsourcing.

Microsoft Corp. has launched in India a multilingual version of Windows XP Starter Edition, its low-cost, stripped-down version of the Windows XP operating system, the company said Wednesday.