Bangalore: The government currently has no plans to corporatise the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) and is now refocussing the work being done in various societies under the Department of Information Technology (DIT), a top official said.

"We are not looking at corporatising CDAC...not at all...not right now," secretary in the Department, Rajeeva Ratna Shah, told reporters here on December 16 night after the inauguration of High Performance Computing Asia 2002.

He said out of the 13-odd societies under DIT, the surviving ones are six. The societies have now been brought under two clusters, one for manpower development and another R & D.

Shah declined to comment on reports that Microsoft is considering sharing source code of its Windows platform in India, saying he does not want to talk about it as he had come to an event organised by CDAC.

He said if he made any comment on that, it would be highlighted in the media "stealing the thunder from CDAC".

PTI