Monday, February 10, 2003		Feature

A one-day seminar on .NET application development in Chandigarh Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd, today held last week. This event was part of an 18 city "MSDN Yatra" being conducted by Microsoft to help students and developers across the country acquire skills to develop next generation n-tier applications.

Microsoft evangelists Kunal Sikka and Karun Anand, addressed the students of the Punjab Engineering College and developers. The MSDN Yatra is being held by Microsoft to celebrate one year of the launch of its tool for application development -Visual Studio.NET.

Since its launch a year ago, a large number of developers in India have used VS.NET for over 200 projects to develop cutting edge applications for the global marketplace. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Windows Services for UNIX 3.0(SFU3.0), developed at its India Development Centre, won the Best System Integration Software award at LinuxWorld Conference, held in New York.

Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 provides a full range of cross-platform services that help integrate Windows in a secure and cost-efficient manner into existing Unix and Linux environments, a company official says.

"Windows Services for Unix 3.0 provides platform interoperability and application migration components in one fully integrated product," Amit Chatterjee, Director, Windows Server Technology Group, MIDC, says.