He said, currently, over 30 per cent of software development which required middleware was using Corba and the rest was in the process of migrating. ``We are focusing on software industrialisation by introducing component-based software technology to various industries and corporates,'' he said. Component-based technology would reduce the complexity of software solutions that are required to develop a project, he said. Globally, the software component market was growing at 40 per cent a year and it would reach $93 billion by 2003.

Mowbray said software components technology would be an ideal instrument to move up the value chain. ``In the West, over 90 per cent of the Fortune 2000 companies have already adopted enterprise object technologies like Corba,'' he said. Corba would facilitate different technologies on a single platform by offering inter-operability between two dozen operating systems and programming languages, he said.

According to him, component-based software was a sophisticated extension of enterprise object technologies. It was the next generation software that would be picked up by all companies in the future. ``In the next three years, we will see corporates re-engineering their businesses using such technologies,'' he said.

CMG is planning to open 30 Corba training centres across Asia Pacific during the calendar. It currently has training centres in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Columbo.

CMG would develop courseware and learning material for these centres called the Research Scientific Centres (RSC). The syllabus would contain component-based development, Corba technology, enterprise application and business system integration. Currently CMG is in talks with a couple of firms to set up more such centres in India. CMG is planning to impart training in Corba to 3000 students a year.

Mowbray said, CMG has recently organised over 100 IT professionals globally to work on software architecture, design protocols and component-based development using Corba.

He said CMG was in discussion with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), IT Task Force, members of the corporate community and Special Internet Group to propagate the technology. It has plans to set up an exclusive Corba lab at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). CMG would also set up a component lab, a virtual library for Corba in Bangalore during the calendar, he added.