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Winners Of The World Is Open Awards Are...
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The awards showcase IT projects based on open source technologies as well as projects incorporating open source components.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008:
Skoch Consultancy Services has announced the winners of Red Hat-sponsored The World Is Open Awards. The first of the annual awards recognise the most impactful open source technology implementations in the country received 163 nominations. The winners include 24 open source technology projects implemented across the country. Dr B. K. Gairola, director general, National Informatics Centre was awarded as the 'Open Source Evangelist of the Year'.
The projects nominated include governance, banking, financial services, telecom, healthcare, education and infrastructure amongst others.
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The selection of the winners was determined by an independent jury comprising of eminent industry personalities headed by Dr Deepak Phatak, Subharao M. Nilekani, chair professor and head, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, while the entire process of nominations, submission and evaluation was audited by Skoch Consultancy.
Shared Gery Messer, president, Asia Pacific/Japan, Red Hat Asia Pacific, "Today, we again affirm the relevance and value of open source to businesses, government and academia. We are at a stage where Red Hat customers confidently entrust their mission-critical applications on our open source platform. The World is Open Awards is proof to this fact. With organisations under pressure to achieve more with less, it is now more crucial than ever for entities to be free from vendor lock-in as they retain the flexibility to innovate and remain competitive. These are the key reasons to consider open source software adoption as a key strategy to drive out cost from their IT infrastructure."
"The World is Open awards showcases IT projects based on open source technologies as well as projects incorporating open source components. We have received 39 per cent of the nominations from Government, 10 per cent from banking and financial services, 4 per cent from education and balance 42 per cent from other sectors which included telecom, healthcare, infrastructure and services. The projects were adjudged on several parameters including effectiveness in delivering project objectives, innovation, open standards, relevance, scalability and flexibility," explains Sameer Kochhar, chief editor and CEO, Skoch Consultancy Services.
Nandu Pradhan, president and managing director, Red Hat India, added, "The open source collaborative model for innovation and as deployment by businesses has gained tremendous acceptance in India. We feel proud to see so many successful deployments on open source being nominated for The World is Open Awards. We take this opportunity to thank and congratulate our customers on deploying open source solutions with Red Hat as they reap the resulting benefits. Red Hat strives to consistently support the business needs of enterprises through the adoption of open source software, right from infrastructure to middleware to applications of various kinds. We aim to deliver value for our customers with open source as the enabler. At a policy level, we are working with Indian leaders to apply the open source principles and make India a knowledge superpower."
The awards were presented by Gery Messer, president, Asia Pacific/Japan, Red Hat Asia Pacific and Dr Deepak Phatak, Subharao M. Nilekani, chair professor and head, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay at a ceremony held in New Delhi. Nandu Pradhan, president and managing director, Red Hat India was also present on the occasion.
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