Microsoft, Novell Win 2007 Award For System Interoperability

Frost & Sullivan awarded Microsoft & Novell the Industry Innovation and Advancement Award for System Interoperability at its recently held '2007 India ICT Awards'. This is the first time the award has been presented for interoperability.

Receiving the award Radhesh Balakrishnan, Director- Platform Strategy, Microsoft India, said, "Interoperability is one of the top priorities for Microsoft and this award is a testament to our effort and investments in this area. We are focused on achieving Interoperability by design and by working closely with the industry, community and the standards bodies. We are excited about this prestigious award recognising our approach to addressing the customer needs in partnership with Novell. This award further strengthens our commitment and we look forward to working closely with customers in India to help systematically address their interoperability needs."

According to Dr. T.R Madan Mohan, Director (Consulting), ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia & Middle East, "Enterprises today have geographically dispersed complex, heterogeneous hardware and software systems. The ability of systems to cooperate, communicate and use the information transferred amongst them, is interoperability, hence it becomes important to exploit the IT systems deployment. From a software perspective, interoperability of the systems is to exchange data based on common set of procedures, protocols, and formats. Microsoft and Novell, by signing to support interoperability between world's largest OS and popular Open Source Novell Suse Linux have committed to reduce the cost of operating hybrid systems."

More from Biztech