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Sandeep Dikshit
NEW DELHI: With Israeli companies giving a tough competition and with a lucrative deal for electronic systems integration and other projects for Indian naval submarines in the bag, the French company Thales is planning to focus more on the civilian side in India. Thales has already set up a small repair and overhaul centre for equipment supplied to the defence forces and the civilian sector. It is now "reassessing'' the current framework of Thales teaming up with four other equipment suppliers to provide spares and supplies to customers. "We are looking at a bigger centre that will look after avionics and electronic controls and cockpit avionics of several airlines including Indian, Jet, Indigo, Spice and Deccan. We are completely reassessing the plans,'' Francois Dupont, the company's India Country Manager, said. Thales had also announced plans for a software centre in Chennai that will employ up to 3,000 engineers and with India no longer a cheap place to produce software, the company would be planning to develop middleware. "Cheap Indian software is a gone story. It is now a place for high quality services and products. Cheaper places to develop software are now countries like Romania and Ukraine. So, instead of asking software companies to do middleware, we will do it in India. In the second phase, it is possible we will go into the development of new software in India,'' Mr. Dupont said. But the "big story,'' according to Mr. Dupont, will be in the civilian sector. A supplier of high end electronic systems, Thales is also taking a closer look at other needs of the rapidly expanding civil aviation sector and sees a major possibility in inflight entertainment systems.
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