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Keen to learn: Software professionals at the Great Indian Software Summit in Bangalore

BANGALORE: They say, two’s company, three’s a crowd. So what is 3,000? A software summit that can only happen in Bangalore.

It was the first independent information technology (IT) conference — an event not built around one IT company or its product. And it ended late last week as the largest such gathering of geeks in India.

Attracting around 3,000 young engineers, most of them based right here in India’s Silicon City and about equally divided in the two disciplines of Microsoft’s .Net and Sun’s Java programming environments, “The Great Indian Software Summit” as it was called, gave delegates some unique opportunities to interact with software legends such as Jesse James Garrett, the father of Ajax. This stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a zippy way to write Web programmes. Rahul Patel, Oracle’s U.S.-based vice-president for server technology, was there. Indian stalwarts included D. Shivakumar, Nokia India Managing Director, and Srini Koppulu, who heads the largest Microsoft research and development centre outside the U.S.

The event was organised by Saltmarch Media, a new city-based media company focussed on professional information-sharing.

A poll conducted among software professionals and moderated by a distinguished panel of experts including former Karnataka Information Technology Secretary and now the State’s Chief Electoral Officer M.N. Vidyshankar and N. Balakrishnan, head of the Indian Institute of Science’s Supercomputer facility, judged Nandan Nilekani of Infosys to be the Top Ambassador of software,

Infosys Technologies to be the Ecosystem Leader and Satyam Computer Services as the Top Committer .

Rangachar Kasturi of the University of South Florida’s Computer Science Department and the global president of the IEEE Computer Society, who delivered the final afternoon’s keynote, remarked: “The IEEE’s Supercomputer Conference is one of the largest with over 10,000 attendees. From what I have seen, the Great Indian Developer Summit may well take away that tag in the coming years.”

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