Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Sun, Salesforce.com Finalists at Great Indian Developer Awards
---Vote for Trailblazing Individuals and Products Par Excellence; Voting Closes May 02 2008---
(I-Newswire) - For Immediate Release:
Bangalore – March 31, 2008 – Saltmarch Media announced today that voting is open for the 2008 edition of Great Indian Developer Awards. This first-of-its-kind awards in India recognize trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. This year’s awards will be given away across 15 categories at an exclusive ‘awards nite’ at the Great Indian Developer Summit, May 19-24 2008 in Bangalore.
In Stage I, from January 25 to March 14, nominations were accepted from across 15 open individual and product categories. These were short-listed and a total of 75 nominees have been announced from the summit website. From now until May 02, everyone is invited to cast their votes for their favorites in the shortlist from here http://developersummit.com/awards.html
The rigorous selection process for the awards doesn’t end there, however. Once voting closes on May 02, the votes will be counted and a final list of three nominees from each category will be made available to the high stature awards jury. The awards jury will cast their vote on the finalist, thus arriving on a winner for each of the 15 categories.
The awards jury is comprised of distinguished executives, seasoned industry professionals, and academia whose expertise spans the entire information technology gamut. This year’s jury include the IT Secretary to the Government of Karnataka ( M N Vidyashankar ), World-wide President of IEEE ( Dr. Rangachar Kasturi ), President of AdaptivePath & Father of Ajax ( Jesse James Garrett ), VP for Server Technologies at Oracle ( Vijay Anand ), Head for Google India R&D ( PRasad Ram ), General Manager for DPE at Microsoft India ( Tarun Gulati ), Head of Accenture Labs India ( Lin Chase ), VP & Head at SETLabs at Infosys Technologies ( Subu Goparaju ), Silverlight Geek at Microsoft ( Jesse Liberty ), Founder of Agile Developer Inc. ( Dr. Venkat Subramaniam ), and Associate Director of Indian Institute of Science ( Prof. N. Balakrishnan ), among others. For a complete list of jury members, see http://developersummit.com/conference.html#advisor.
The panel members all vouch for the Great Indian Developer Awards as the one-of-its-kind awards program that will highlight product excellence, research and innovation, corporate achievements, the strongest individual efforts, and the most compelling community efforts among the entire IT developer fraternity in India.
Nominated Individuals and Products by Category:
• Development Environments: Eclipse, KDevelop, Sun Java Studio Enterprise IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, Oracle Jdeveloper, JBuilder 2007 • Design and Modeling: Telelogic Rhapsody, Sybase PowerDesigner, Compuware OptimalJ, Borland Together Architect, Serena Mashup Composer, MyEclipse • Change and Configuration Management: Perforce, AccuRev Enterprise Edition, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, CA Software Change Manager • Collaboration Solution: Oracle Collaboration Suite, WebEx Meeting Center, Zoho Writer, Mingle, Zimbra, Citrix GoToMeeting • Testing: Borland SilkTest, Agitar JUnit Factory, Collabnet CuBIT, iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing & Validation, Coverity Prevent Software Quality System • Security: Codenomicon Defensics, BEA Systems' AquaLogic Enterprise Security, Atlassian Crowd, Fortify Defender, Novell Identity & Security Management • Content Management: Joomla, IBM Workplace Web Content Management, Interwoven TeamSite, MarkLogic Server 3.2, Skelta Software • Web Development: Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET, Adobe ColdFusion 8, Appcelerator Platform, Salesforce.com's Force.com, /n Software's RSSBus • Mobile Development: Symbian, Qualcomm's Brew, Eclipse Embedded Rich Client Platform, Netbeans Mobility ( Java ME ), Google Android • Frameworks: SpringSource Spring Framework, ILOG Jviews, .NET Framework 3.0, JBoss Seams, Apache Struts • Database: Microsoft SQL Server, BusinessObjects Crystal Reports, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Oracle Database 11g, Daffodil Database • Top Ambassador: Nandan Nilekani - Infosys, S Ramadorai - Tata Consultancy Services, Ashank Desai - Mastek, Deepak Ghaisas - I-flex, Ganesh Natrajan - Zensar • Top Committer: Peter Thomas – Satyam Computer Services, Shreyas Srinivasan – Geodesic Information Systems, Baishampayan Ghose - Cleartrip.com, Naba Kumar - Nokia, Ramesh Loganathan – Progress Software • Ecosystem Leader: Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, I-flex Solutions, Patni Computer Systems • Technical Books: Oreilly Head Rush Ajax, Packt Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server, Apress Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional, Apress Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Wrox Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX
The awards will be held on the sidelines of the Great Indian Developer Summit, happening May 19-24 2008. The summit will feature three co-located conferences on .NET, Rich Web and Java. Attedees will get the opportunity to learn bleeding-edge technologies, what business models are working, what's next on the horizon, and how all of this will affect their own organizations and business. They'll also be left plenty of time for catching up with old friends and making new acquaintances at the evening parties and the 5-day tradeshow. Sessions will cover issues such as "The Future of Enterprise Java", "Web Plumbing 101 - Practical Semantic Web", "Delivering Long-term Value In a Short-Term World", "What It Takes to become an Enterprise Developer", as well as real-world workshops on "The Elements of User Experience", "Parachuting Into Brownfields", "SQL Server 2008 Deep Dive", "Sharepoint 2007 Development", and much more. See program here http://developersummit.com/speakers.html.
The Great Indian Developer Awards ceremony will be held on the evening of May 24, 2008, at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore, India. The summit is made possible by support from Oracle, Microsoft, Forum Nokia, Infragistcs, Dapper, Dreamface, Farata Systems, Lightstreamer, Feedback FX, Advanced Millenium Technologies and Parasoft among others.
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