1996

Ashok Jain leaves Fujitsu-ICIM, returns to HCL fold.

PCQuest Nepal launched. 

AT&T trims down. The company announced to lay off nearly 40,00 employees. The cuts formed part of the company’s plans to split itself into three separate companies-a service provider, a communications equipment manufacturer, and a computer maker.

Michael Splinder, President and CEO, of Apple computer ousted from the company. He is replaced by Gilbert
Amelio.

Apple computer licenses its Mac operating system to Motorola. The deal enables Motorola to license and also sub-license the software to other computer manufacturers.

US-based Mastech Corp is served an interlocutory order by the Madras High Court preventing it from enticing TCS employees.

SGI announces its decision to acquire supercomputer maker Cray Research in a $739 million deal.

Cisco acquires StrataCom Inc, a supplier of ATM and frame relay high-speed WAN switching equipment.

Ashank Desai, President, Mastek, becomes President
NASSCOM.

Domestic IT spending crosses Rs7,00 crore. A growth of 41%.

Domestic software market crosses Rs1,300
crore.

Anal Jain, CEO, Sun India, resigns after a 14-months tenure with the company. 

Vijay K Thadani, President and CEO, of NIIT takes over as the President of
MAIT.

IBM receives a $93-million contract to build a 3-teraflop massively Parallel Processing-based super computer for the US department of Energy that will be capable of simulating nuclear tests. 

In a letter to DoJ, Netscape accuses Microsoft of violating an anti-trust agreement it signed with the department in 1994.