Alliances

Aspera to Come to India

i.Netmarks Singapore, an affiliate of Netmarks in Tokyo has signed
premiere partnership agreement with Aspera for selling Aspera products through a
variety  of Channels. It will resell
Aspera's software solutions in South Asia including India.

Kanbay, Pegasystems Join Hands

Kanbay and Pegasystems have announced an alliance to develop and
deliver business process management (BPM) expertise to financial services
organizations. The alliance brings Kanbay's deep financial services domain
expertise and global IT services delivery capability together with Pegasystems'
best practice BPM solution frameworks.

CreekPath Partners with HCL Tech

CreekPath has announced its partnership with HCL Technologies. Under
the agreement, HCL has created a development center in Chennai, India to augment
the talent and expertise of Creekpath's existing staff. The center gives
CreekPath access an additional pool of talented developers for device interface
software, QA, and test automation projects-thereby speeding time-to-market of
new products.

SemIndia Signs MoU

SemIndia has signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with
Flextronics. Under this Flextronics will become a preferred manufacturing
partner for SemIndia's electronic products and SemIndia will manufacture
semiconductor chips for the various product categories that Flextronics
manufactures in India. These include chips for cell phones, set-top boxes and
personal computers among others.

Wavesat, HCL Join Hands

HCL Technologies and Wavesat have announced a partnership, which will
leverage Wavesat's Evolutive WiMAX DM256 Series, along with HCL's WiMax MAC
IP and Datacom engineering expertise to develop high-performance and low-cost
802.16 compliant solutions. The first of several products to be jointly
developed by the two companies will be launched in the first half of 2006.

Red Hat Partners NIHT

Red Hat has announced its partnership with NIHT Infosolution (NIHT)
as a preferred training partner. As a part of this partnership, NIHT will
provide Red Hat's complete range of training and certification programs to
create a pool of Linux certified professional in the state. Red Hat's diverse
course of offerings ranges from basic Linux administration skills, such as
system administration and networking to specific areas of expertise.

Wipro Partners with Zafin

Wipro Technologies has formed a strategic partnership with Zafin Labs
to jointly deliver solutions using Zafin¹s miRevenue suite to help financial
service providers accelerate the roll out of strategies for product and pricing
innovation, customer retention, acquisition and plugging revenue leakages.

Interoperabilty Extended

EMC has announced a licensing agreement with IBM that provides EMC
with interfaces for storage interoperability and technical support for the IBM
System i platform. This will help customers more easily deploy combinations of
EMC storage and IBM Systems technologies.