These are just some awesome names that little of us in the IT industry aspire to be. They are great names. With them comes a responsibility that is huge and heavy. I admit, I am no where near these titles. Can I be a hardcore programmer? Do I have the passion? I am still asking myself these questions. But these speakers inspire and motivate me. The Great Indian Developer Awards 2008 is a first-of-its-kind ceremony that honors winners across a range of categories in the IT Developer ecosystem. The awards throw the spotlight on trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. Let us pray and work towards the glory alike these individuals. With much effort and enthusiasm, I believe that Malaysians can one day achieve as so. Gambate!

Voting for the Great Indian Developer Awards 2008 closes on May 2, 2008. This first-of-its-kind awards in India recognize trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity, and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. Votes may be cast at the event’s Web site.

Oracle has been nominated in seven of the 15 categories:

Development Environments: Oracle JDeveloper —IDE with support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java

Security: Oracle Identity Management Suite — allows enterprises to manage end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources both within and beyond the firewall

Frameworks: Oracle Application Development Framework — an end-to-end J2EE framework that simplifies development by providing out-of-the-box infrastructure services

Collaboration Solution: Oracle Collaboration Suite — a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, provides integrated tools to improve productivity

Web Development: Oracle WebCenter — brings Web 2.0 to the enterprise through the an integrated, comprehensive, and standards-compliant user experience platform

Database: 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

Content Management: Oracle Enterprise Content Management — a unified enterprise content management platform

Once voting closes on May 2, the votes will be counted and a final list of three nominees from each category will be made available to the high stature awards jury. The awards jury will cast its vote on the finalist, thus arriving on a winner for each of the 15 categories.

This year's awards will be presented at an exclusive Awards Night on May 24 at the Great Indian Developer Summit, of which Oracle is a Platinum Sponsor.

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