Microsoft China signed a deal on Thursday with Shanghai's Pudong Software Park Co. on the company's setting up a .NET technological center in the park.
Alando Ayala, vice president of Microsoft, said the deal represented a milestone in the cooperative relationship between the two sides, adding that China has the best software talents in the world and a huge market of tremendous potential.
The Microsoft official noted that Microsoft attaches a great deal of importance to developing a strategic partnership with China.
The software park, based in Shanghai's booming Pudong New District, is a state-of-the-art facility where more than 1000 software companies have registered, including those sponsored by leading companies including Sony, Citibank and Ernst & Whinney. Several Indian companies have also been registered, including TCS, SATYAM and INFOSYS.
(Xinhua News Agency October 25, 2002)
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