2008 WINNERS

Oracle JDeveloper

"Eclipse and Oracle JDeveloper fought neck to neck in this category. However, the jury consensus pointed to Oracle JDeveloper 11g Preview as the more complete IDE. Whether is about JSF and Ajax development for the UI, EJB/JPA coding for the mid tier or BPEL orchestration for workflows this IDE seems to do it all. And you don't need to look for plugins unlike Eclipse -- JDeveloper comes with a number of built-in plugins and is tightly integrated to provide a better developer experience"

Sharad Medhavi, Director of Engineering, Oracle India, receiving the award on behalf of the Oracle JDeveloper team

Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Architecture Edition

"Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Architecture Edition had a strong competitor in MyEclipse. However, the robustness and the feature richness of the VSTS 2008 architecture edition combined with its popularity among the Indian developer workforce saw it come on tops"

Microsoft representative thanks the developer ecosystem for their overwhelming support as he accepts the award on behalf of the VSTS 2008 team.

Oracle Identity Management Suite

"This was fairly simple. Oracle and Novell solutions are cross platform -- critical for an enterprise security platform. Oracle's solution is far more comprehensive and includes core security, access management, identity management, provisioning and other capabilities. In addition, given most of these capabilities came in through acquisitions of leaders it is a best of breed suite as well. These, coupled with the fact that Oracle Identity Management Suite came out on tops in the democratic voting stages, squarely positions it as the winner in the security category"

Clemens Utschig, Product Manager for SOA, Oracle Corp., receiving the award from Jesse James Garrett (President, Adaptive Path) and Dilip Thomas (CEO, Saltmarch Media)

.NET Framework 3.0

"While Apache Struts has been around long and popular it is now a bit dated. Spring is a more popular framework for the mid-tier. Oracle ADF has the advantage of being based entirely on the more modern Java Server Faces standard. In all the three stages of the voting process, the .NET framework sailed through this category on its sheer merit of being a highly capable and highly regarded framework by Microsoft developers"

Siddharth Kapoor, Manager - Developer Audience Marketing, Microsoft India, accepting the award on behalf of the .NET Framework team.

Oracle Collaboration Suite

"Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS) offers a complete and integrated communications solution that ranges from Web conferencing and email to also calendar, content services, and mobile access. While the jury was equally split between Oracle's comprehensive suite and some of the other open source, free and Ajax based solutions, OCS came out trumps in both the voting stages"

Oracle representative collects the award on behalf of the Oracle IdM team

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

"Hugely popular!! VSTS simply walked away with the award in this category. Backed both by the developer ecosystem and industry, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System was a front runner since the time it was shortlisted as a finalist in this category"

Microsoft representative thanks the developer ecosystem for their overwhelming support as he accepts the award on behalf of the VSTS team.

Adobe ColdFusion 8

"Adobe ColdFusion 8 emerged the winner after fighting a neck to neck battle with ASP.NET and Oracle WebCenter. As a Web development framework, ColdFusion competes against a number of technologies, but its advantage lies in its implementation, comprehensiveness, and the fact that it is many things rolled into one - presentation package, programming language, a means to produce and edit images and PDFs and much more."

Dr. Kasturi Rangachar, Worldwide President of IEEE, presents the award for Adobe ColdFusion.

MySQL

"Backed by a strong community and fostered and nurtured by Open Source, this champion database has today grown into a force to reckon with in the Web backend as well as enterprise database spaces. MySQL is exciting because it powers most of the popular internet databases and has proven that an open source project can scale to be with the biggest. While Oracle 11g has exciting features and is the market leader, MySQL is making very good progress, and is expected to do well under Sun"

Naveen Asrani, Manager, Developer Marketing, India & APAC, receiving the award from Vijay Anand, Vice President Engineering, Oracle Corp.

EMC Documentum

"The robustness and workhorse nature of the tools in EMC Documentum for managing documents, records, Web content, digital assets and collaboration, coupled with its huge popularity in the Indian enterprise content and document management space, squarely places it on top of the "Content Management" category at the Great Indian Developer Awards 2008. The democratic voting stages and the high stature jury's recommendation unequivocally vouched for EMC Documentum as a leader in this category"

Harish Sidenur, Senior Manager, EMC Data Storage Systems, speaks to the audience after receiving the award from Angela Burgess, Global Strategy Head at IEEE.

Borland SilkTest

"Borland SilkTest emerged as a front runner in both the voting stages. It simply won this category on the merit of being a quality framework that looks at software quality in a very holistic view from the beginning of the development cycle to when the applications are delivered"

Ramakrishna G, Senior VP, Saltmarch Media, receiving the award on behalf of the Borland SilkTest team.

Eclipse Embedded Rich Client Platform

"Eclipse Embedded Rich Client Platform offers a generic workbench, user interface components to build rich client user interfaces, a pluggable component model for easy integration of new features and functionality, an update manager for centralized management of deployed applications, and much more. Clearly, this was the most popular finalist in this category as was evinced by its top standing in all three stages of the selection process"

Dilip Thomas, Chairman & CEO, Saltmarch Media, receiving the award on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation.

Wrox Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX

"Wrox has hot competition from ORA and Apress as was clear from the voting stages. Wrox books won because they live up to their promise of "Programmer to Programmer" and have a great mindshare among the Indian developer ecosystem"

Representative from Wiley receiving the award on behalf of Wrox Press from Angela Burgess, Global Strategy Head at IEEE.

Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies

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.

Infosys representative receiving the award on behalf of Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies.

Peter Thomas, Satyam Computers

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.

Peter Thomas receiving the award from Sreehari Narasipur, VP Engineering, Telelogic India.

Infosys Technologies

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.

Indu Britto, Senior Vice President & Group Publisher, Saltmarch Media, receiving the award on behalf of Infosys Technologies.