IANS reports that Microsoft and Wipro will compete for the right to host the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) website. The two parties – The Cricket Network(TCN) in partnership with Sun and Wipro, and a Microsoft-TCS combine – will submit their final financial schedules to the BCCI on August 14th. Accenture has been appointed to make the selection, and in consultation with BCCI’s marketing sub-committe, will announce the winner on the same day.
Interestingly, this contradicts earlier reports that TCN had been assigned the task of designing, building and operating the portal, but negotiations were still going on. So was the Microsoft-TCS bid invited to ensure more favourable negotiations? Seems like it.
The BCCI website (www.bcci.tv) was registered on the 2nd of Feb 2006, and it’s taken them six months to reach this stage. I wonder how long the website development process will take, and whether they will be able to compete with well established players like Wisden’s Cricinfo.
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