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BEA, Tata Infotech offer Weblogic training Financial Express - Aug 3, 2001

Infrastructure software major BEA Systems and Tata Infotech have come together to launch training on BEA transaction platform technology, Weblogic, in India. The training programme has been designed to cater to the growing transaction platform market, which is slated to touch $44 billion in the next five years, according to Mr Srikant S Rao, country manager, BEA Systems.

Under the agreement, the training module would be hosted at Tata Infotech centres. The module is being rolled out on August 6, initially in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. According to Mr Rao, "There is a large opportunity in the transaction platform segment. We have decided to tap the training market, as Weblogic has become the de facto Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) server in the Indian software community."

Mr Rahul Thapan, head, education services division, Tata Infotech, points out that the long-term strategy is to provide it as an add-on module. "Also, the focus will be to try and bundle this along with other pieces of technology and spread it to a wider market," he added.

He said that as Tata Infotech is providing system integration solutions based on BEA Systems’ products, "it was natural to extend this relationship to provide training on the fastest-growing transaction technology platform to India."

According to Mr Thapan, the training module is targeted at corporates initially. Under the module, there will be two courses of five days each.