About the awardsStage IStage IIThe Winners
Nominations Closed. Polls are openVoting OpenWill be announced on May 23
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VOTE FOR ONE FROM EACH CATEGORY
Please cast your vote for one of the finalists from each category. There are 15 categories in all -- 12 product excellence categories and 3 individual excellence categories. You can choose to vote in as many categories as is relevant to your expertise and area of focus.
Kdevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/)
A free software IDE for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems
Visual Studio Team System 2008 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/)
Integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance
SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (http://www.sap.com/)
Integrated environment, based on Eclipse, for the development of J2EE-based, multi-tiered business applications
Compuware OptimalJ (http://www.compuware.com/)
A Java development environment that uses patterns to automatically translate business models into working applications
Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Architecture Edition (www.microsoft.com/)
Provides a design surface to model service-oriented applications and create new Web service definitions to connect applications
BEA Systems' AquaLogic Enterprise Security (http://www.bea.com/ales/)
Fine-grained entitlements solution that delivers security and IT efficiency
Novell Identity & Security Management (http://www.novell.com/)
A suite of products that leverage identity information stored and managed with Novell Identity Manager to manage access to networks, systems, and information
Oracle Identity Management Suite (http://www.oracle.com/)
Oracle Identity Management allows enterprises to manage end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources both within and beyond the firewall
.NET Framework 3.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/)
A software component that has a large library of pre-coded solutions to common program requirements, and manages the execution of programs for framework
Apache Struts (http://struts.apache.org/)
An open source framework for building Servlet/JSP based web applications based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm
Oracle Application Development Framework (http://www.oracle.com/)
Oracle ADF is an end-to-end J2EE framework that simplifies development by providing out of the box infrastructure services
Oracle Collaboration Suite (http://www.oracle.com/collabsuite/)
A member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, provides integrated tools to improve productivity
WebEx Meeting Center (http://www.webex.com/smb/)
Present information, share applications, and collaborate on projects with colleagues and customers around the world
Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/)
An open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration
Team Automated Response Organisation By You (http://www.taroby.org/)
A web 2.0 based collaboration and unified messaging application that enables answering and sharing of messages within a global team effortlessly
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (http://www.microsoft.com/)
Server program that facilitate information to be organized and aggregated in one central, web-based application to enable creating, managing and sharing documents
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (http://www.adobe.com/)
Flash-based Web-conferencing and e-learning solution that enables sharing rich content
Perforce (http://www.perforce.com/)
A client/server configuration management system. The server supports UNIX and Windows NT. The client supports most platforms via command-line
AccuRev Enterprise Edition (http://www.accurev.com/)
Process-centric software configuration management (SCM) solution for geographically distributed and offshore application development
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/)
Integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance
Salesforce.com Force.com (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/)
Platform to create and deploy applications to departments that don’t use CRM applications, on-demand and without software
Oracle WebCenter (http://www.oracle.com/)
Oracle WebCenter brings Web 2.0 to the enterprise through the an integrated, comprehensive, and standards-compliant user experience platform
Telerik (www.telerik.com)
User Interface (UI) components for ASP.NET and Windows Forms, and .NET Reporting solutions.
Oracle Database 11g (http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html)
Oracle Database 11g runs on all industry-standard platforms and moves from a single instance to Grid Computing without changing a single line of code
Daffodil Database (http://db.daffodilsw.com/)
Daffodil DB is a JDBC 3.0 and SQL 99 compliant Cross Platform Java database for all enterprise needs
MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)
Open source database software, owned, developed and supported by Sun Microsystems
IBM Workplace Web Content Management (http://www.ibm.com/)
Offers end-to-end Web content management--content can be created (using a WYSIWYG rich text editor)
MarkLogic Server 3.2 (http://xqzone.marklogic.com/)
Build complex applications that interact with large volumes of XML, SGML, HTML and other popular content formats
Skelta Software (http://www.skelta.com/)
Embeddable .NET BPM and advanced Workflow Engine for developers based on the Microsoft .NET framework
EMC Documentum (http://www.emc.com/)
Content management platform that manages different types of content across the enterprise within a common information infrastructure
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (http://www.microsoft.com/)
Server program that facilitate information to be organized and aggregated in one central, web-based application to enable creating, managing and sharing documents
Oracle Enterprise Content Management (http://www.oracle.com/)
Oracle Enterprise Content Management is a unified enterprise content management platform
Parasoft JTest (http://www.parasoft.com/)
Java testing product for development teams building Java EE, SOA, Web, and other Java applications
Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Test Edition (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/)
Suite of testing tools for Web applications and services that are integrated into the Visual Studio environment
Eclipse Embedded Rich Client Platform (http://www.eclipse.org/)
eRCP is largely a set of components which are subsets of RCP components. It basically enables the same application model used on desktop machines
Netbeans Mobility (Java ME) (http://www.netbeans.org/)
Create, test, debug and deploy applications that will run on mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, embedded systems
Windows Mobile (http://www.microsoft.com/)
Operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on Microsoft Win32 API
Adobe Device Central CS3 (http://www.adobe.com/)
Provides knowledge, workflow, and functionality for mobile and device authoring; a result of the merger between Macromedia and Adobe
Peter Thomas – Satyam Computer Services
Initiator and maintainer of two successful SourceForge projects, including JTrac
Shreyas Srinivasan – Geodesic Information Systems
Contributor to projects including Openoffice, Evolution (MacOSX Port, GroupDAV connector), and Clutter
Naba Kumar - Nokia
Creator, maintainer of Anjuta DevStudio IDE for GNOME application development
Ramesh Loganathan – Progress Software
Active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations and member of several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.3
Infosys Technologies
IT services company with over 88000 employees and revenues of over USD 3.1 billion
Wipro Technologies
Third largest IT services company in India, based in Bangalore
Tata Consultancy Services
Providers of IT, consulting, services and BPO with revenues of USD 4.3 billion
I-flex Solutions
Majority owned by Oracle, a provider of IT solutions to the banking industry
Patni Computer Systems
Provider of IT services and business solutions with over 15000 employees
Nandan Nilekani, Infosys
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company and co-founder of NASSCOM and Bangalore Chapter of TiE
S Ramadorai, Tata Consultancy Services
The CEO and MD of TCS has been associated with the company for the past 36 years
Ashank Desai, Mastek
The Founder and Ex-Chairman catapulted the company into the Top 20 software companies in India
Deepak Ghaisas, I-flex
CEO of the company's India operations and CFO for global operations, and chairman of the IT committee of CII
Ganesh Natrajan, Zensar
Deputy Chairman and MD and accomplished author on topics including BPR, KM and the Indian IT Industry
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Stage I Nominations Close on March 14 2008
Stage II Nominations Close on May 07 2008
Winners to be Announced on May 23 2008
The inaugural edition of the annual Great Indian Developer Awards at Great Indian Developer Summit 2008 is the first-of-its-kind ceremony that honors winners across a range of categories in the IT Developer ecosystem. The awards throw the spotlight on trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. The awards 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. The judging process will culminate in an exclusive ‘awards nite’ with a high stature panel felicitating the awardees. The winners will, undoubtedly, be set on the fast route to broad recognition of their achievements.
Award Categories
Great Indian Developer Awards will honour outstanding achievements across a range of categories in the IT Developer ecosystem. This first-of-its-kind awards ceremony will announce and honour winners across a range of categories.
Top Ambassador
This award honors an individual (IT decision maker, analyst, architect, engineer, project manager, designer, or programmer) who best promotes and supports the IT developer ecosystem in India. This award is open to individuals from both IT as well as non-IT companies. Everyone can vote on this award.
Top Committer
This award recognizes an Indian committer who best exemplifies support for the larger IT community through newsgroups, Bugzilla, white papers, conference presentations, blogs and other forums. Everyone can vote for this award.
Ecosystem Leader
An IT company (multi-national or home-grown, large or small) that is not only a leader in adopting and developing using the latest cutting-edge tools, frameworks, platforms, and best practices, but also applying its leadership assets to its customer portfolio.
Products Par Excellence
These awards recognize the product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity, across 12 different categories. The selection criteria applied by an international stature panel places emphasis on functionality, usability, innovation excellence, bleeding-edge quotient, and feedback from the developer ecosystem.
Development Environments – nominate from the new breed programming languages, source code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs).
Collaboration Solution - nominate from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities.
Content Management – nominate from content creation, categorization, workflow, publishing and delivery tools.
Design and Modeling - requirements gathering, modeling, prototyping, GUI design, analysis tools, including automatically generating code from models.
Change and Configuration Management - nominate from across tools that track and manage software defects and enhancement requests as well as version control and change or configuration management.
Testing - the best solution developed to test the functionality of a software product or service or a segment of code. Nominate from across test scripting, automation, static and defect tracking, bug tracking and documentation, functional and load testing, quality assurance planning, test-case design, white- and black-box testing and source code analysis.
Security - nominate tools from across authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam prevention.
Web Development – nominate from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.
Mobile Development – awards the best software application, software service or infrastructure solution that enables access to software functionality and boosts the productivity and adaptability of a mobile device – including small form factor devices and/or phones. Includes operating systems, infrastructure and network solutions.
Frameworks – nominate from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developer’s treasure chest
Database - awards the best software solution for the storage, organization, management, search and retrieval of large quantities of data.
Technical Books – a single book can change your course as a developer. Nominate from across several hundred titles in 2007-08 that have positively impacted your life in the developer ecosystem.
Selection Process
The Great Indian Developer Awards is a highly participatory process involving stakeholders from the developer ecosystem and the high stature awards jury.
The selections process involves three stages:
Stage I (Closes March 14 2008): All stakeholders from the developer ecosystem nominate across the three open individual categories and 12 open product categories. The nominations 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.
Saltmarch Media will announce a maximum of 10 finalists in each of the 12 product par excellence categories. From a maximum of 10 finalists in each category, upto 6 products are shortlisted based on the Stage I nomination results, and upto 4 products based on parameters such as market leadership, functionality, universality of appeal, and simplicity. This process is to ensure uniform representation across each category. However, the 3 individual excellence award categories -- Ecosystem Leader, Top Ambassador, Top Committer -- will be identified solely on the basis of nominations received in the Stage I process.
Stage II (Closes May 07 2008): The participatory process continues from March 21 to May 07 2008, when voting is open among the developer community, but restricted to the nominee shortlist announced in Stage I of the award process.
Stage III: Votes are counted on May 08 2008, and a final list of two nominees from each category is made available to the high stature award jury. The awards jury will cast their vote for the final shortlist, thus arriving on a winner for each category.
Awards Ceremony (May 23 2008): Winners will be announced at the Great Indian Developer Awards Nite on Friday, the 23rd of May, on the sidelines of the Java Teenage Party at Palace Grounds, Bangalore, on May 23 2008.
Nomination
Great Indian Developer Awards 2008 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. You can get involved by nominating those that deserve recognition in 2007-08 and celebrate their success by coming along to the prestigious awards ceremony.