Enterprise software maker Oracle said on Monday it will continue to hire aggressively in India at the rate of 250 people a month.

"We have been hiring 250 people a month in India. In all probability we will continue to grow at this pace," Oracle India's Managing Director Shekhar Dasgupta said at a press conference where he announced the forthcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference in Mumbai.

"Oracle currently has 6,400 people in India and the new recruitments would be spread across all our functions," he said.

The company has development centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad. "We will continue to consolidate these two centers and have no plans to start a development centre at any other location," Dasgupta said.

He did not disclose the investment that the company would make for expansion.

Dasgupta said Oracle is working to extend the functionalities of its data hub solution to include applications for government departments.

"We had launched Data Hub solution that organises data of companies at one central location five months back. We are running pilots at e-Governance Centre of Excellence and trying to showcase how it can be useful for the government departments," Director at Oracle India S P S Grover said.

He said though many governments have shown interest in Data Hub solution and the uses it can be put to but its adoption may take time.

At the two-day Oracle OpenWorld conference, which will be one of the 10 conferences that the company regularly organises worldwide, latest version of its applications software Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10 will be one of the key highlights.

At the conference, which is being held in India after five years, the company will focus on key verticals of manufacturing, financial services, government and telecom that it functions in.

"At Oracle OpenWorld, which will be held on November 2 and 3, our customers will get an opportunity to understand how Oracle's technology and applications products can help them meet the business challenges presented by changing market dynamics and globalisation," Somesh Bhagat, marketing director at Oracle India, said.