2008 Finalists

Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/)
A project aiming to provide a universal toolset for development

Kdevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/)
A free software IDE for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems

Sun Java Studio Enterprise IDE (http://developers.sun.com/jsenterprise/)
A set of tools that provide support for enterprise software development based on the J2EE platform

IntelliJ IDEA (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)
Tool with code-editing, testing, and refactoring support

Oracle JDeveloper (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev)
IDE with support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java

JBuilder 2007 (http://www.codegear.com/products/jbuilder)
Application server independent enterprise class IDE built on open source Eclipse

Visual Studio Team System 2008 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/)
Integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance

Telelogic Rhapsody (http://modeling.telelogic.com/products/rhapsody/)
UML 2.0 based model-driven development environment for systems and software engineering

Sybase PowerDesigner (http://www.sybase.com/products/powerdesigner)
Combines several standard data modeling techniques together with development environments

Compuware OptimalJ (http://www.compuware.com/)
A Java development environment that uses patterns to automatically translate business models into working applications

Borland Together Architect (http://www.borland.com/us/products/together/)
A visual modeling platform supporting architects, developers

Serena Mashup Composer (http://www.serena.com/mashups/)
A visual design tool to connect applications and automate business processes

MyEclipse (http://www.myeclipseide.com/)
A Eclipse-based J2EE development platform

Codenomicon Defensics (http://www.codenomicon.com/products/)
Preemptive security and testing solution

BEA Systems' AquaLogic Enterprise Security (http://www.bea.com/ales/)
Fine-grained entitlements solution that delivers security and IT efficiency

Atlassian Crowd (http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/)
Single sign on software for identity management and application provisioning

Fortify Defender (http://www.fortify.com/products/defender/)
Software security for protection against SQL injection, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

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

Microsoft Forefront (http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/)
Security products to protect information and to control access across operating systems, applications and servers

SpringSource Spring Framework (http://www.springframework.org/)
Full-stack Java/JEE application framework

ILOG Jviews (http://www.ilog.com/products/jviews/)
A set of Java graphics products for building Web-based GUI displays: diagrams, charts, schedules or maps

.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

JBoss Seams (http://www.jboss.com/products/seam)
Full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB3, Portlets, and BPM

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 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

Zoho Writer (http://writer.zoho.com/)
Online Word Processor to create, edit and shared documents easily

Mingle (http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence)
A new agile project management application for teams that need to make real-time decisions using real-time data

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

Citrix GoToMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/)
Web-based service designed to make online meetings easy

Collabnet CuBIT (http://www.collab.net/products/CUBiT/)
Virtualization solution that dynamically provisions build environments for distributed software teams

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

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

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718825.aspx)
Solution for managing change across organizations of all sizes

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET (http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/)
Suite of ASP.NET and Windows Forms controls, components, and tools for the .NET platform

Adobe ColdFusion 8 (http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/)
Software that solves the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development

Appcelerator Platform (http://www.appcelerator.com/products.html)
Deploy and manage enterprise-grade Web 2.0, RIAs and SOA-based services on one open, extensible and standards-based Web platform

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

/n software's RSSBus (http://www.rssbus.com/products/rssbus/)
Create and publish dynamic RSS feeds from Databases, Spreadsheets, Directories, or other information sources

ASP.NET (http://www.asp.net/)
Web application framework to create dynamic web applications

Adobe Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/)
Open source framework to build and maintain expressive web applications

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

Microsoft SQL Server (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.mspx)
A relational database management system (RDBMS) produced by Microsoft

BusinessObjects Crystal Reports (http://www.businessobjects.com/)
Design, manage, and deliver reports via the web and embedded in enterprise applications

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) (http://www.sybase.com/products/databasemanagement/)
Enterprise-class relational database management system product

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

IBM DB2 (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/)
One of IBM's lines of relational database management system (or, as IBM now calls it, data server)

Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/)
Content Management System and Web Application Framework

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)

Interwoven TeamSite (http://www.interwoven.com/components/)
Delivers the foundation that businesses need to build, deploy, and integrate content across the enterprise

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

Borland SilkTest (http://www.borland.com/us/products/silk/silktest/index.html)
Tool to build functional & regression tests

Agitar JUnit Factory (http://www.junitfactory.com/)
Automated unit testing for Java applications

iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing & Validation (http://www.itko.com/site/products/)
Platform for ensuring quality and minimizing risk in complex, changing enterprise applications

Coverity Prevent Software Quality System (SQS) (http://www.coverity.com/)
A commercial defect detection system

Parasoft JTest (http://www.parasoft.com/)
Java testing product for development teams building Java EE, SOA, Web, and other Java applications

Symbian (http://www.symbian.com/index.html)
Operating system for smart phones

Qualcomm's Brew (http://brew.qualcomm.com/)
Open solution for wireless applications development, device configuration

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

Google Android (http://code.google.com/android/)
Software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications

Windows Mobile (http://www.microsoft.com/)
Operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on Microsoft Win32 API

Oreilly Head Rush Ajax - Brett Mc Laughlin
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/headra/)

Packt Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server - David Heffelfinger
(http://www.packtpub.com/Java-EE-5-GlassFish-Application-Servers/book).

Apress Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional - Jeff Friesen
(http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781590598306)

Apress Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional - Christian Gross
(http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590598695)

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

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

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