Wipro added 35 new clients, out of which six were Fortune 1000 companies, in the quarter ended September 30, 2003. "While 15 customers were in R&D services, 20 were in enterprise services," an official release said on Friday.

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Vivek Paul, vice chairman of Wipro, said: "This quarter, we saw customers demonstrating both growing confidence in our end-to-end service model as well as an increased willingness to increase spending."

"Our technology businesses continued to recover with sequential growth of 16 per cent including telecom, which grew sequentially by 14 per cent."

"Our IT businesses continued to demonstrate steady growth with sequential growth of 12 per cent. Highlights in IT business were a 36 per cent sequential growth in technology infrastructure services, 22 per cent sequential growth in BPO and 19 per cent sequential growth in package implementation."

Wipro has reported a net addition of 3,091 employees in the quarter under review.

"We had 24,265 employees as of September 30, 2003, which includes 15,773 employees in IT services business and 8,492 employees in IT-enabled services business. This represents a net addition of 3,091 people comprising of 1,061 in IT services and 2,030 people in IT-enabled services," the release added.