Saltmarch Media - Voting Opens for India’s Premier Awards for Software Development Product Excellence

Great Indian Developer Awards 2009 - 100+ Nominees Shortlisted. Voting Closes April 03 2009

Bangalore – February 09, 2009 – Saltmarch Media appear today that voting is accessible for the 2009 copy of Great Indian Developer Awards. The additional copy of India’s aboriginal and arch awards for the software developer ecosystem will admit organizations and articles that are accidental to the evangelism, abundance and addition arete of the Indian developer ecosystem . This year’s awards will be accustomed abroad above 11 categories at an absolute ‘awards evening’ at the Great Indian Developer Summit, May 25 2009 at the J N Tata Auditorium (Indian Institute of Science campus) in Bangalore.

In Stage I, from November 15 2008 to January 12 2009, nominations were acclimatized from above 11 accessible artefact categories. On February 09 2009, these were short-listed and a absolute of 100+ nominees accept been appear from the acme website. From now until April 03 2009, anybody is arrive to casting their votes for their favorites in the shortlist from actuality developersummit.com/awards.html#vote.

The accurate alternative action for the awards doesn’t end there, however. Once voting closes on April 03, the votes will be counted and a final account of three nominees from anniversary chic will be fabricated accessible to the top ability awards jury. The awards board will casting their vote on the finalist, appropriately accession on a champ for anniversary of the 15 categories.

The awards board is comprised of acclaimed executives, acclimatized industry professionals, and academia whose ability spans the absolute advice technology gamut. The administrator of this year’s board is Shri. M N Vidyashankar, Chief Electoral Officer, Government of Karnataka, and banderole agent of the Information Technology ecosystem in Karnataka, India. In his role as IT Secretary of Karnataka from October 2006 to April 2007, Shri. Vidyashankar steered the software and account exports from Karnataka, admitting political agitation and poor infrastructure, to a whopping 44% of the country’s absolute IT (information technology) and back-office casework exports of about $40 billion (Rs1.58 trillion). Other honourable board associates cover the Immediate Past President of IEEE (Dr. Rangachar Kasturi), Head of Intuit’s attendance in India (Vijay Anand), Founder of Agile Developer Inc. (Dr. Venkat Subramaniam) and Associate Director of Indian Institute of Science (Prof. N. Balakrishnan) a allotment of others.

Nominated Products by Category:

·Development Environments: IBM Rational Application Developer, Embarcadero JBuilder 2008, Jboss Developer Studio, JetBrains ReSharper 4.1, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Oracle JDeveloper, Sun Microsytems' NetBeans, Eclipse, Microsoft Expression Studio.
·Design and Modeling: Instantiations WindowBuilder Pro, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, No Magic MagicDraw UML, Microsoft Visual Studio – Architect Edition, Ravenflow RAVEN, IBM Rational Rose, Genuitec MyEclipse, Sybase PowerDesigner, CS Odessa ConceptDraw
·Change and Configuration Management: Accurev, Serena TeamTrack, MKS Integrity, McCabe CM, CA Software Change Manager, Perforce SCM, Serena Dimensions, Rational Software Architect, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008
·Collaboration Solution: Citrix GoToMeeting, Jive Software Clearspace, Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional, Microsoft Unified Communications, phpBB, 37Signals Basecamp, Taroby, Central Desktop, Microsoft Office, activeCollab, WebEx WebOffice, EMC Documentum eRoom, IBM Lotus® Connections, Microsoft Exchange Server
·Testing: Klocwork Insight, BMC AppSight 6.0, Atlassian Clover, Coverity Prevent SQS, Fortify Tracer, Ounce Labs' Ounce, The iTKO LISA Suite, VMLogix LabManager, Compuware DevPartner Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition, Keynote Systems' KITE 2.0, JBoss Profiler, JUnit.org
·Security: Quest Software's InTrust for Databases, Atlassian Crowd, Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES, Parasoft Application Security Solution, Fortify Defender, Kaspersky Open Space Security, Microsoft Forefront
·Content Management: IBM WebSphere Portal, Interwoven TeamSite, Drupal, Ingeniux CMS 6, Plone, EMC Documentum, TYPO3, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS), Alfresco CMS, Oracle Universal Content Management
·Web Development: Prescient Author, InfoSoftGlobal FusionCharts, Dojo Toolkit, Aptana Studio, Microsoft ASP.NET, Embarcadero 3rdRail, Yahoo! SearchMonkey, Bungee Connect, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe ColdFusion 8
·Mobile Development: Keynote MITE, Windows Mobile, Adobe Device Central, Nokia Symbian, Qualcomm BREW, .NET Compact Framework, Google Android
·Frameworks: Apache Struts, Spring Framework, Prado, jQuery, SproutCore, Merb, Skelta BPM.NET Developer Edition, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, JBoss Seams
·Database: Oracle Database 11g, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse, Vertica Analytic Database, Teradata, Sun Microsystems-MySQL, Netezza, TOAD, SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports

Winners will be appear and honoured at the Great Indian Developer Awards 2009 to be captivated in affiliation with the Great Indian Developer Summit 2009 (www.developersummit.com) at the J N Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus, Bangalore, on Saturday the 25th of April 2009. The acme will affection three co-located conferences on .NET, Rich Web and Java and a appropriate day for workshops. Attendees will get the befalling to apprentice bleeding-edge technologies, what business models are working, what's next on the horizon, and how all of this will affect their own organizations and business. They'll aswell be larboard affluence of time for catching up with old accompany and authoritative new acquaintances at the black parties and the 4-day show. Sessions will awning talks such as "A Lap Around Oslo", "What’s New in C#4.0", "A (Failed?) Project From the Perspective of a Team Lead", "T-SQL: Tips and Tricks Sharing Fest! 2009 Edition", “21st Century RIAs: Using HTML 5 Communication”, “Guerrilla SOA”, “Building RESTful Applications with Ruby on Rails”, “Cracking the Tough SOA Nuts”, as able-bodied as real-world workshops on "JRuby in Action”, “Programming Microsoft’s Live Mesh”, “Building a Mashup”, and more. See affairs actuality developersummit.com/speakers.html.

The acme is fabricated accessible by abutment from Platinum Sponsors - Adobe and Microsoft, Gold Sponsors - Redhat and Intel, Silver Sponsor Broadridge, Hack Sponsor Yahoo, and DevelopMentor Sponsors Progress Software and AMT Technologies a allotment of others.

For added advice on the awards and to vote, see developersummit.com/awards.html.

For added advice on Great Indian Developer Summit 2009, attending up www.developersummit.com/.

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