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Sun inks partnership with Wipro

  • United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, October 21 - 2008 at 13:55
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Sun Microsystems has inked a partnership deal with Wipro to widen its reach within the GCC.

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  • Bruno Haubertin, partners and sales organization manager, Sun Microsystems, MENA.
    Bruno Haubertin, partners and sales organization manager, Sun Microsystems, MENA.
Wipro will resell and integrate the entire suite of Sun systems, storage, software, and services to serve Sun's customers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar.

The Sun-Wipro business partnership commenced almost two decades ago in 1989, with Wipro in India selling 3/50 and 3/60 workstations.

"The Sun-Wipro alliance addresses complex issues our customers face today, including increasing demands for Enterprise Security, Business Integration, and Open Source Secure Operating Systems in addition to network access, bandwidth and storage being driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing," said Bruno Haubertin, partners and sales organization manager, Sun Microsystems, MENA.

"Wipro is strongly aligned with Sun's internet-centric go-forward strategy and has core skills in deploying and integrating complex business solutions to enhance customers' competitiveness, business agility, and risk mitigation through innovative IT solutions and infrastructure. They possess strong delivery, integration, and deployment capabilities across Sun's systems, storage, and software platforms. Wipro have been delivering technology-driven business solutions for the past 25 years, and have a strong team of professionals delivering key services within the region,"


added Haubertin.

"The signing of this partnership demonstrates and reinforces Sun's confidence in Wipro as a company and our services," said Rajan Sampath - General Manager - Wipro. "We are confident that our wide expertise in implementation complex infrastructure solutions around Sun's technologies including Solaris 10 adoption, identity management, coupled with a Global Delivery model, backed by our dedicated Centers of Excellence on JavaES and Solaris will deliver value to the customers."

Wipro have pioneered a Global delivery model with program management for faster rollout of web services, applications and infrastructure upgrades delivering cost savings and improved quality to IT operations that will guarantee Sun's customers added value and a competitive edge.

Wipro has more than 50 development centers, 743 clients and 92,000 employees in 53 countries across the globe. Wipro is the world's largest independent R&D services provider and the world's largest offshore third-party testing services provider. The company is one of the world's top offshore Indian BPO service providers and the largest offshore technology infrastructure management services provider. Wipro is the world's first PCMM and CMMi Level 5 Company, and the first company outside the USA to receive the IEEE Software Process Award.
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About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.

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About Wipro Infotech
Wipro Infotech, a division of the $4.9bn Wipro Limited, provides enterprise customers with high value Information Technology Products, Services, Solutions and Consulting Services in India, and provides Technology & Software Services and Consulting Services in the Middle East and ASEAN. It is the world's first Products, Services and Solutions Company to be certified, Enterprise wide at Level 5, Version 2.0 of PCMM. Headquartered at Bangalore, Wipro Infotech serves customers in India through a network of 22 offices and 170 service locations across the country. It has business offices in the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

About Wipro Ltd
Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, IT enabled services, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally. Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.

In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange.

Wipro's forward looking and cautionary statements
Forward-looking and cautionary statements Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects and our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions are forward looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward looking statements.

The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding our ability to integrate and manage acquired IT professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a cost effective and timely manner, fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Wipro has made strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry.

Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Wipro may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. Wipro does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.

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