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Microsoft ‘Yukon’ beta to debut in India soon

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Microsoft Corporation is working towards the beta-one release of its ‘futuristic’
SQL server product in the Indian sub-continent. Christened ‘Yukon’, the
product is designed to help enterprises address data challenges related to
application availability, security and reliability."In India about nine of
our partners are already working with us to drive applications on Yukon. By the
end of January we will be releasing the public beta for the product. However the
final release of this product would be sometime in October 2004," informed
Tarun Malik, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft.

Developed at Microsoft’s Redmond based facility, the product is already
being used by five of the company’s most valued customers worldwide.
"This product will take data warehousing and business intelligence to a new
level and will have huge capacity to drive data. As it happens with any other
product release, at present two US based customers, two European customers and
one Asian customer are using Yukon. We are quite positive about their response
and we are sure that the product will drive the market to new heights," he
added.

Emphasizing the importance of mid-tier market for Business Intelligence (BI),
Malik said that this market is increasingly becoming significant and Microsoft
as a company will be focussing heavily to address this segment. "We already
have 20 independent software vendors working towards catering to the mid-tier
market segment. We would be increasing this figure as the market expands,"
he explained.

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BI as a concept includes software applications, technologies and analytical
methodologies that perform data analysis and segments such as telecom, BFSI,
retail and manufacturing are all set to drive the growth for BI within the
country. "Recently we have implemented a big order towards BI application
for a national oil and natural gas company in India. So the market is growing
pretty fast and as present we have around seven customers running our BI
solutions," Malik informed.

Zia Askari

New Delhi (CyberMedia News Service)

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