2009 WINNERS

Winner from the new breed programming languages, source code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is a suite of tools designed to help software developers create next-gen applications.

Pradipta Kumar Sharma, Cross-audience Marketing at Microsoft Corp (India), receiving the award on behalf of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 team

Winner from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional

Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional is a solution for web conferencing and eLearning.

Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan, who leads the Platform Evangelism initiatives of Adobe India, receiving the award on behalf of the Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional team

Winner from content creation, categorization, workflow, publishing and delivery tools.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS)

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) is an integrated suite of server capabilities that aims to help improve organizational effectiveness.

Pradipta Kumar Sharma, Cross-audience Marketing at Microsoft Corp (India), receiving the award on behalf of the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server team

Winner from requirements gathering, modeling, prototyping, GUI design, analysis tools, including automatically generating code from models.

IBM Rational Rose

IBM Rational Rose is an object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML) software design tool intended for visual modeling and component construction of enterprise-level software applications.

IBM representative collects the award on behalf of the IBM Rational Rose team

No Magic MagicDraw UML

No Magic MagicDraw UML is a CASE tool that supports UML 2.1.2 standard, code engineering for multiple programming languages (Java, C++, C# and other) as well as for data modeling.

Paul Duncanson, Chairman and President of Asian and European Operations for No Magic, receiving the award on behalf of the No Magic MagicDraw UML team

Winner from across tools that track and manage software defects and enhancement requests as well as version control and change or configuration management.

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Edition

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a set of integrated tools for SCM, requirements management, issue and task tracking, communication and ALM.

Anil Bakshi, Country Head, India, Collabnet, receiving the award on behalf of the CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Edition team

The best solution developed to test the functionality of a software product or service or a segment of code. Winner 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.

JBoss Profiler

JBoss Profiler is a log based profiler using JVMPI and JVMTI.

Bruno Georges, Middleware Solutions Director for Red Hat APAC/Japan, receiving the award on behalf of the JBoss Profiler team

Winner from tools across authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam prevention.

Quest InTrust

Quest InTrust monitors critical systems and detects inappropriate or suspicious access and exploits and then generates reports and automated real-time alerts on those activities.

Krishnan Thyagarajan, Managing Director of Quest Software India, receiving the award on behalf of the Quest InTrust team

Winner from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.

Adobe ColdFusion 8

Adobe ColdFusion 8 aims to solve the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development.

Hemant Khandelwal, who leads the efforts on the next version of ColdFusion application server, and other Adobe representatives, receiving the award on behalf of the Adobe ColdFusion 8 team

Winner from across software applications, software services or infrastructure solutions that enable 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.

Nokia Symbian

Nokia Symbian is an operating system designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools.

Prakash Sayini, Forum Nokia India Lead, receiving the award on behalf of the Nokia Symbian team

Winner from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developer’s treasure chest

Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex Builder is an Eclipse based development tool enabling intelligent coding, interactive step-through debugging, and visual design of the user interface layout, appearance etc.

Adobe representative collects the award on behalf of the Adobe Flex Builder team

Winner from among the best software solution for the storage, organization, management, search and retrieval of large quantities of data.

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle 11g is the latest version of the Oracle database. Built on the theme "Growing the Grid" (with focus on Fusion Middleware, RAC and ASM) this version has added enhanced materialized view and cube management (notably transparent SQL access and incremental update).

Sanket Atal, Senior Director of R&D, Oracle India Development Center, recievess the award for Oracle Database 11g

SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports

SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports can be used to design interactive reports and connect them to virtually any data source.

Arun Rao, who heads the Crystal business for SAP Business Objects in India, recieves the award on behalf of the SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports team