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Pat: Could I have your opinion on Indian tech company Wipro? Thanks.

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Wipro Ltd. (ADR), $7.78, symbol WIT on New York (ADRs outstanding: 2.5 billion; Market cap: $15.5 billion; www.wipro.com), is India’s third-largest information technology services company. It sells software and provides corporate data centre outsourcing services as well as maintenance and consulting services. Wipro started off as Western India Products (WIPRO) in 1945 after establishing an oil-seed crushing unit at Amalner, near Jalgaon in Maharashtra state. It started its technology business in 1980, and over the years this has become a major part of its business. Wipro is now taking steps to focus on its core information technology business: it’s spinning off its other operations, including Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting (with its furniture operations), Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (hydraulics and water) and Medical Diagnostic Product & Services, into a separate company. This new firm will be called Wipro Enterprises Limited. Wipro Ltd. will remain a publicly listed company that will focus exclusively on information technology. It will hand out shares of Wipro Enterprises…