Sponsors & Exhibitors

Platinum Sponsors

Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.

Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business, creative and mobile software solutions that revolutionaize how the world engages with ideas and information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in twelve cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Indore, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune.

Sony Ericsson Developer World is a global support program and web portal www.sonyericsson.com/developer totally dedicated to helping professional wireless developers achieve business success by providing easy-to-find documentation, tools, technical advice and go-to-market support. Sony Ericsson Developer World guides developers through the development process in four steps – Think it, Make it, Test it, Sell it - thereby ensuring a constant stream of fun, useful and innovative content and applications for Sony Ericsson phones. Sony Ericsson is now actively supporting the growing third-party developer community in India by offering it an exclusive award and recognition program with “I Love Being Famous”. Winners of this contest will qualify for a 100-day mentorship to be groomed to work closely with Sony Ericsson and become a “Sony Ericsson Certified Developer”. Visit http://www.sonyericsson.com/developer/india for more details about the Sony Ericsson Developer World Awards in India.

In the past 15 years, the Crystal Reports(r) family of offerings has provided integrated reporting solutions to organizations worldwide. Over a million developers have enhanced their applications using Crystal Reports software - the de facto standard in enterprise reporting. Geared for small businesses and midsize companies, Crystal Reports solutions provide developers with everything they need to embed professional reporting in their applications, and deploy reports to any number of users, anywhere.

Gold Sponsors

Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Other Red Hat offerings include support, training and consulting services to customers worldwide. Red Hat's Open Source software is used today in military, medical systems, banking, space exploration.

Intel is software too! Intel is a world leader in silicon innovation, and develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel® Software aims to accelerate advanced technologies and computing models by enabling innovators everywhere with products, services and a global presence, delivering the power of Intel platforms. Whatever you envision, we can help make it a reality. To know more, visit the Intel Software Network (www.intel.com/software), a centralized repository of resources on latest Intel technologies and also a venue to connect, collaborate and share ideas.

Hack Sponsor

The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups. Yahoo! APIs let developers tap into Yahoo!'s world-class data and infrastructure to help power their businesses and integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and interesting place for everyone. More info: http://developer.yahoo.com

Silver Sponsors

Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest provides customers with client management as well as server and desktop virtualization solutions through its subsidiaries, ScriptLogic and Vizioncore. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide. Our WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli, Rational, Information Management and Modular Systems brands are aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM helps solve its clients' most intractable business and competitive problems by engaging its depth of insight on connecting operating systems, business processes, and technology seamlessly. More info: www.ibm.com.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., with over $2.2 billion in revenues in fiscal year 2008 and more than 40 years of experience, is a leading global provider of technology-based outsourcing solutions to the financial services industry. Our systems and services include investor communication, securities processing, and clearing and outsourcing solutions. We offer advanced, integrated systems and services that are dependable, scalable and cost-efficient. Our systems help reduce the need for clients to make significant capital investments in operations infrastructure, thereby allowing them to increase their focus on core business activities. For more information visit www.broadridge.com.

DevelopMentors

Embarcadero empowers software developers and database professionals with award-winning tools to design, build, optimize, and run software applications and databases across multiple platforms and programming languages. With the acquisition of CodeGear™ from Borland in 2008, Embarcadero now serves more than three million professionals worldwide with IDEs and database tools that dramatically simplify and accelerate development.

For over two decades, ILOG has developed software and technologies that have helped organizations build unparalleled applications. ILOG's innovative solutions help thousands of industry leaders worldwide make crucial business decisions while increasing agility, cutting costs and slashing schedules. ILOG has more than 2,500 customers, 850 employees and operations in 30 countries around the world. The ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS), Optimization, Visualization, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) portfolios will build upon IBM software and business process management (BPM) leadership across a broad range of applications and environments.

Sybase is the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information. It is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. Sybase is recognized globally as the performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all systems, networks and devices. For over 25 years, our information management, analytics, mobile messaging and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government.

SednaSpace — the world's first INTRAnet - SaaS platform — is an unique and innovative technology built on Microsoft .Net platform. SednaSpace assists corporate to host the platform, build applications on-demand and publish them, all in a simplified drag & drop and effortless manner.SednaSpace offers BPM designer, BPM engine and automated creation of Web Services. Thus SOA made easy. More info: www.sednaspace.com.

CollabNet is the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) platforms for distributed software development teams. CollabNet’s platform enables a culture of collaboration and substantially reduces the cost of software development. CollabNet is corporate sponsor of the open source Subversion® project, the leading SCM solution. CollabNet’s products are used by millions of users at more than 700 organizations. More info: http://www.collab.net/.

8KMiles is an online ecosystem of verified professionals and companies for software development outsourcing “completely” over the internet. The 8KMiles ecosystem makes available both the people and the infrastructure (Software and Hardware) required for software development on-demand effectively enabling “software development-as-a-service”. For Software professionals, the benefits include Working from Anywhere, Work/Life Balance, Choice of projects and Collaboration – build virtual companies and cross-leverage skills.

Progress Software Corporation provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Progress® focuses on supporting SOA deployments with products that easily create, connect, mediate and control interactions among new business services. More info: www.progress.com.

Advanced Millennium Technologies (AMT), a leading global services company, provides consulting, implementation, business transformation and operational solutions for clients across the globe. AMT's product portfolio includes Puzzle Commerce (a complete E-Business Solution), and Taroby (a Web-based unified messaging system and collaboration for teams and workgroups - www.taroby.org). AMT has offices in India, Germany, New Zealand, and the United States. More info: www.amt.in.

Exhibitors

(ISC)²®'s newest certification the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLPCM) is leading the industry by establishing standards and best practices, ensuring security throughout the software lifecycle. It's comprised of seven Domains created around building security into the process. CSSLP Education Program Start May 2009. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, (ISC)² has certified over 60,000 information security professionals in over 130 countries. Visit www.isc2.org/csslp

Optimus BT, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is one of the leading providers of SharePoint based business and technology solutions. Optimus BT has designed and implemented Solutions for Collaboration, Self Service, Enterprise Content and Document Management and SharePoint Training for customers including Smithsonian Institution, FFIC, Honeywell, Boyden, Tyco, FMC among others. More information: http://www.optimusbt.com

Oriensoft XpressHost (Microsoft Certified Gold Partner) is an leading Managed Hosting Services Provider offering i.e Shared Hosting, VPS, Co-location, Dedicated Servers, Business E-mail, Managed Services & SAAS Hosting to companies with a critical Internet component since 1999 in datacenters in India (Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi) & USA.

Tekno Point Multimedia is positioning itself as a catalyst for Web 2.0/RIA revolution. We are an Adobe Solutions Partner and Adobe Authorised training partner in India. The design and development division at Tekno Point Multimedia helps organisations revolutionise their digital presence. The third initiative of Tekno Point Multimedia is to offer consulting services on Flash Platform; under this initiative experts from our company work onsite with clients and we also provide pre-trained resources to organizations who want to experiment or execute projects on Flash Platform without deviating from their core competence. To know more, visit: www.teknopoint.info.

Special Sponsors

Zest is a part of the US$ 4.5 billion Mahindra Group, one of India 's leading industrial houses, the group has diverse interests in many sectors ranging from utility vehicles to infrastructure and Information Technology. Mahindra Holidays’ Zest is an innovative product for the young metropolitan. More info: http://www.zestbreaks.com/

Supported By

With nearly 75,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest IEEE society, the Computer Society serves the information and career-development needs of today’s computing researchers and practitioners with journals, magazines, conferences, books, certifications, and online courses. See us at http://www.computer.org.

India's leading online information portal for the software developer ecosystem, DevMarch, is backed by a world-class editorial team that constantly update the portal with exclusives, videos and podcasts, fresh wires and white papers on Java, Agile, Open Source, Microsoft Computing Technologies and Rich Web Technologies. With a membership base of 60,500 (as of April 18 2009), DevMarch is where India's software developers meet development. Bookmark http://www.devmarch.com/ to stay competitive and benefit from Saltmarch Media's offerings.

SMS Partner

Unicel is into providing cutting-edge technology and marketing solutions in the wireless and telecom space. Unicel has unique offering of products and services for Mobile NEtwork Operators (MNO) and enterprises in various segements. More info: www.uniceltech.com.

Broadband Partner

Airtel Broadband Services, India's most preferred high-speed Internet service, redefines your Internet experience. It is fast, fun, convenient and cost effective. More info: www.airtel.in.

Techpark Partner

Ascendas is Asia's leading provider of business space solutions. Beyond the provision of space in science, business, high-tech and industrial parks our seamless solutions cover the entire real estate value chain to include e-infrastructure and business networking, enabling customers to enjoy complete plug-and-play business environments in key markets in Asia. More info: www.ascendas.com.

Global Community Partner

JavaBlackBelt is a community for Java & open source skills assessment. It is dedicated to technical quizzes about Java related technologies. This is the place where Java developers have their technology knowledge and development abilities recognized.

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Radio One FM 94.3, launched in 2006 in Bangalore targets the 'fataafat generation' (18 to 24 years) of listeners. Over its two year existence, the raio channel has morphed to become the only Bollywood music station in the garden city. On Radio One FM 94.3 you can expect to hear the best RJs in show business and more fun than you've ever had listening to the radio.

Media Partners

Lake Quincy Media is the only network of its size specifically targeting Microsoft developers, representing over 140 top community sites. The Lake Quincy Media team has been helping component vendors, webhosts, software companies, and more make their products stand out on the web for years. Lake Quincy Media also represents CoDe Magazine and provides sponsorship opportunities for the DevMavens network of influential bloggers.

asp.netPRO is the premier information resource for the ASP.NET developer community. It teaches by example. By showing valuable programming techniques in action - through real-world apps and code - we help professional software developers build, debug, deploy, and run the next generation of dynamic, distributed Web applications quickly and easily.

The VAR Guy (www.theVARguy.com) reveals what's next in the IT channel. Witty. Outspoken. Anonymous. The VAR Guy ranks among the top 1 percent of all blogs, and is the number one blog in the world for channel partners and solutions providers.

Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review (www.thewhir.com) has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web host industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, reviews and resources to the hosting community. TheWHIR Blogs (www.thewhir.com/blogs) provides a community of expert industry perspectives. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine (www.thewhir.com/magazine) also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers at both large and small hosting companies as well as suppliers, resellers and web hosting customers. WHIR TV (www.thewhir.com/tv) offers on demand web hosting video interviews and web hosting video features of the key persons and events of the web hosting industry.

Toolbox for IT is an online community of professionals who share practical information on IT topics. This community enables anyone to access the collective information of a worldwide audience of experienced professionals, including 28 different knowledge bases ranging from business intelligence to wireless technologies.

Wiley India is the Indian subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a leading global publisher. Its core business includes a gamut of books ranging from IT and Business to Indian reprints of bestselling higher education textbooks. Wiley's products includes the WROX series, Bible, Sybex, Dummies, Jossey-Bass, Capstone etc. A specially designed and structured series of higher education textbooks called the Precise Textbook Series is well known from Wiley India’s publishing program.

GoingToMeet.com is a database of relevant events around the world. It maintains a wide list of interests ranging from science, culture, technology, race, religion, and many others. Along with its easy-to-use search engine, it also serves as a one-stop-website to knowing the most important details in every event.

Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on producing cutting-edge books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike. Their unique business model allows them to bring more focused information, giving users more of what they need to know, and less of what they don't. For more information, please visit www.PacktPub.com.

Businessgyan is a business digest providing practical business information. It is the only city specific handbook available for decision-makers in companies and entrepreneurs to access practical guidance and to collect vendor information.

Tyroo is the largest ad-network in India specializing in Technology verticals – Enterprise, Hardware and Developer Audiences. Tyroo accesses proprietary Technology inventory – ASP.net, DotnetSpider.com, targeting developer audiences and Enterprise sites, and works with Microsoft, HP Enterprise, Dell, AMD and others and it has emerged as the preferred technology advertiser in India.

CrazyEngineers® (CE) is an online community of engineers from all over the world. With the younger CEan at 84 and the youngest at 15, CE boasts of students, professionals, entrepreneurs, CEOs, authors, geeks & nerds from over 180 countries. You don’t need a formal degree in engineering to join us.

www.IndiJava.in is India's online community for JAVA, J2EE, J2ME, OpenSource enthusiasts and Indijava.in is also a India Java User Group(JUG).