US-based Technosoft Global Services on Wednesday opened its new facility in Chennai at DLF IT Park at Manapakkam in the presence of the Consul General of the U.S. in Chennai, Andrew Simkin. The company has proposed to invest around $4million (around Rs 19 crore) in the facility. This is Technosoft’s third facility in the country and second in Chennai. The company also has a facility in Bangalore.

Speaking to reporters, Radhakrishnan Gurusamy, chairman, Technosoft Corporation, said of the proposed amount, the company had already invested around $2 million (around Rs 7 crore).

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Chennai-based software training and consulting company, NACE Solutions, is set to sign an agreement with the Anna University’s AU-KBC research centre to offer a joint certification programme in its flagship course – LAMP (Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP).

The AU-KBC, located on the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) campus of Anna University, is funded by the National Resource Centre for Free Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) to promote the free open source software movement in the country.

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