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Roll out The Great Mind Challenge 2008 contest.
 
 
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 IBM has announced 'The Great Mind Challenge 2008' contest under its Academic Initiative programmes that provide student programmers with an opportunity to develop innovative solutions using open standards-based IT tools under grueling real-time situations.




The Challenge 2008 will be themed around 'Search for XML Superstar'. This will enable participants to get a hands-on experience on IBM software products, namely (Tivoli, WebSphere Application Server/ WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, DB2/DB2 Express-C, WebSphere Portal and Forms and Rational) and Eclipse which is open source on a Linux platform.

Pradeep Nair, director, software group, IBM India/SA, said, "The IBM Great Mind Challenge is aimed at encouraging students who aspire to make vital contributions by developing applications on leading-edge IBM technologies. We enable them to work on real world project scenarios with the objective of providing them scope for substantially improving their software writing skills."

The company also felicitated K.L.N. College of Engineering as the winner for the 2007 Challenge, along with the runners up from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Gujarat, and Amrita School of Engineering (Deemed University), Tamil Nadu, at an awards ceremony in Mumbai.





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