Inbox Business technologies has closed the largest ever deal for Microsoft software, integration and deployment services with PTCL/Ufone. The 8.5 million dollar deal includes enterprise wide licensing for Microsoft software, and implementation of key Microsoft technologies into the PTCL /Ufone enterprise by the Inbox Enterprise Services Group. Inbox has already migrated PTCL from their domino infrastructure to Exchange from what I hear and next will be moving to single identity management.
This deal also shows that licensed software is doing very well in Pakistan. Oracle, Microsoft and IBM all have this reported record sales of their software as local large enterprises move to drop “in house built” technologies for standards in the ERP, IT infrastructure and CRM areas.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Well done Inbox!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:28 am
I think it’s sad that such large migrations to closed-source, proprietary systems are being lauded.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Its not about the technology. Never is. Its about reliability. I think if I put myself in the PTCL CIO’s shoes and thought..’hmmmm would i trust unsupported Linux to run my billion dollar company?..’ I think NOT. Frankly, for large accounts in Pakistan, MS+Intel is the way to go. No other options, even if we sometimes wish there were. And you need large stable players like Inbox to deliver on these complex technologies…
January 11th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
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