Startups will be nominated for participation in the program by organizations like venture capitalists, government agencies, and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Startups pay just a $100 exit fee when leaving the program after three years. They also will be able to use open-source tools or server technologies such as the PHP language. Participants also can access the company's Visual Studio development environment. Live Mesh technologies for data synchronization also are part Azure Services Platform.Īdditionally, participants building hosted software can leverage Microsoft software, such as Windows Server, the SQL Server database,the BizTalk Server business process management platform, and the SharePoint Server platform for collaboration. Participants also can access the CTP of Live Framework, which handles user data and application resources within Azure Services Platform. 'We expect many of them will be taking advantage of cloud services,' as part of their company creation, Lewin said.

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