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We are also committed to providing an open source solutions to Social Networking through Codeplex, says Sanjay Manchanda, director, Microsoft business division, Microsoft India

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has gained appreciable traction in the enterprise market over the last few years. As of FY 07 08, Microsoft has sold 100 million licenses for SharePoint generating sales of $1 billion worldwide.

The Microsoft figures point out17000 businesses use SharePoint to tackle their information management needs and to enable employees to collaborate with team members. In India SharePoint revenue have grown by 56% CAGR over the last 4 years and company has over 100 customers on MOSS 2007 in India.

However, analysts have been questioning MOSS capability to scale well in comparison with IBM Websphere. They have also raised doubts about social networking tools for Share Point, which analysts, opine are less advanced and quite uninspiring, when compared to social networking tools in enterprise today.

Idhries Ahmad of CIOL caught with Sanjay Manchanda, director, Microsoft Business Division (India)to put forward his side of story.

Sanjay also talked in detail how Microsoft plans to ward threat from about the IBM/Lotus and company plans to partner or acquire any other big social networking players to improve its social networking bouquet.

Sanjay also talks about trend of Indian enterprises waking up to social-computing tools and technologies.

CIOL: Can you pinpoint specific reasons as to why Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has been received well by customers?. Please detail some features why enterprises should deploy MOSS 2007?.

Sanjay Manchanda: We have seen tremendous response to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) which is an integrated platform for enterprise search, content management, business intelligence, collaboration and corporate portals. Today, these are critical parts of an enterprises IT infrastructure.

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