35 YEARS OF MICROLAND

Our Journey Through The Years

1989-1997 V1.0 Network Economy

Pioneering Networking in India

Starts with a potent networking DNA

Microland incorporates in 1989 to address the networking opportunity in India.

First office in Bangalore

Microland opens first office in Bangalore on 26 August, 1989

Microland brings network education in India

Microland establishes strategic alliance with Novell to bring networking technologies in India for the first time in 1989

Press coverage of Novell’s arrival in India. It's the first of several global names introduced by Microland

John O’Hara, the then Director of International Business Division of Lotus Development Corporation, at the inauguration of Microland’s Madras office

Second office in Madras

Microland opens second office in Madras (now Chennai) on 18 September, 1989

Press coverage of Microland’s third office in Bombay

Third office in Bombay

Microland opens third office in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 26 December, 1989

Press conference announcing the ComputerLand partnership, featuring Lim Soon Hock, VP & MD, Compaq Computer Asia Pacific; Pradeep Kar, CMD, Microland; Shanti Kumar, MD, ComputerLand, Far East; and Tan Kock Hin, Finance Director of Compaq

Microland launches ComputerLand and Compaq in India

In 1992, Microland signs strategic partnerships with ComputerLand, one of the world’s largest network integrators and with Compaq Computers, a large computer manufacturer

Making Headlines

A victorious Pradeep Kar, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Microland, appears in a BusinessWorld announcement of the Compaq launch

Press coverage of the partnership between ComputerLand and Microland – The Economic Times, 18 March, 1992

Bank of America becomes a Microland customer — Press coverage in The Economic Times, 4 December, 1992

Collaboration and partnerships with global leaders, leads to comprehensive networking solutions

Microland launches SynOptics – a leader in Ethernet LAN hubs manufacturing, in India on 28 October, 1993

Pradeep and Bill Messer, MD of Asian operations for Cisco

Microland launches Cisco in India

With this key alliance, Microland brings ‘internetworking’ closer to the Indian market on 3 December, 1993

Microland launches Lotus Notes in India

With this partnership, Microland enhances collaboration between the employees and effectiveness of the networks

Announcing the Microland-Lotus alliance

Doug Ferguson, Sales Manager, Asia Pacific of Micom, at the press conference announcing Microland’s tie-up with Micom

Microland launches Micom in India

Microland partners with the US$ 300 million company to introduce Micom multiplexers into India on 24 August, 1994

N Vittal, Secretary, Department of Electronics, inaugurating MicroTech, Microland’s Technology Center at Bangalore on 21 December, 1995

Microland launches MicroTech

India’s first Proof of Concept Center opens on 21 December, 1995

Microland – Netscape partnership announcement in The Hindu Business Line

Microland launches Netscape in India

India logs on to Netscape on 13 February, 1996

Demonstrating explosive growth

31 March, 1996: Microland celebrates crossing Rs.1,000 million in revenues at the Microland warehouse

1996

Microland becomes the fastest IT company to achieve Rs.1000 million in revenues

Marius Nacht, VP and Co-Founder of CheckPoint Software Technologies at the press conference announcing the Microland-CheckPoint tie up on 2 March, 1996

Microland partners with CheckPoint

Microland forges a partnership with CheckPoint Software Technologies, a Tel Aviv, Israel-headquartered company in early 1996

46^th edition of Miss World

Microland becomes the Information Technology partner for the 46^th edition of the Miss World pageant

MICROLAND: The Best Networking Company of India

The Best Networking Company of the Year award by Computerworld, 1996

IDG rates Microland the #1 Networking Company in India

Boldly stepping into the future

Microland ensures the best start to India’s Internet Economy

Hardware	Compaq
Network	Cisco, ComputerLand, Micom, SynOptics
Collaboration	Lotus Notes
Internet	Netscape
Security	CheckPoint

Winning it all: Awards & Recognitions

Continuing the climb: Microland ranks at #8 in the ISCW rankings and #21 in the Dataquest rankings in 1996

Microland becomes the first IT company to get ISO 9001

Pradeep Kar receives the India Young Business Achiever Award from P Chidambaram on 18 March, 1996

Microland hosts Bill Gates, Chairman & CEO, Microsoft at ‘Enterprise Tomorrow. Today’

1997

Bill Gates delivers the keynote at Microland’s Technology Forum on his first visit to India

Bill Gates getting to know more about Microland services from Pradeep Kar

The Microland management team with Bill Gates

Press coverage of Bill Gates’ visit to India in The Economic Times

Delivering technology to global pioneers and game changers

1998

Transitioning into an e-Services company

Ian Hughes, CA’s General Manager for India and the SAARC Region along with Pradeep Kar at the press conference

Microland partners with Computer Associates

Microland signs up a strategic alliance with Computer Associates, one of the world’s largest independent software companies on 2 February, 1998, in Bangalore