BANGALORE: Bangalore-based Rational Software Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has
announced the inauguration of its Software Engineering for Educational
Development (SEED) program in the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),
Bangalore.
Rational’s SEED program represents a long-term commitment to provide its
software suite free of cost to help colleges and universities. This is a part of
the company’s plan to intensify its SEED program, which was launched in India
in 1998, with a view to promote good software engineering skills.
Talking on the fresh initiative for SEED, Rational Software country manager
Bharatee said, "The SEED program is intended to help the academic community
to overcome their financial constraints in making software technology available
for hands-on use by students. This will make them keep pace with the industry.
We are donating these only for educational purpose and not with any commercial
aim."
Speaking on the occasion, IIIT-Bangalore director Prof. S Sadagopan said,
"IIIT will be greatly benefited by Rational’s SEED program as our
students will be able to use Rational’s products to develop their
projects."
For IIIT-Bangalore, Rational is providing 10 licenses of its software suite
worth around Rs 85 lakh. So far, the company has donated its software to the
Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institutes of Technology-Mumbai, Chennai and
Kanpur, the Indian Institutes of Management-Bangalore, Calcutta and Indore and
the Anna University.