Skoch Consultancy, Red Hat recognize Open Source Tech

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Skoch Consultancy Services a leading market analysis and strategy consulting firm today announced the winners of its first "The World Is Open Awards".   Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions was the presenting sponsor for these awards. The first of the annual awards set up to recognize the most impactful open source technology implementations in the country received 163 nominations and the winners include 24 open source technology projects implemented across the country (the names of the winners are attached in the addendum). 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. 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 & Head Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, while the entire process of nominations, submission and evaluation was audited by Skoch Consultancy.

 

"The World is Open awards showcase IT projects based on Open Source technologies as well as projects incorporating Open Source components. We have received 39% of the nominations from Government, 10% from Banking & Financial Services, 4% from Education and balance 42% 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 & CEO, Skoch Consultancy Services.

 

The awards were presented by Mr Gery Messer, President, Asia Pacific/Japan, Red Hat Asia Pacific and Dr Deepak Phatak,  Subharao M. Nilekani Chair Professor  & Head Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay at a ceremony held in New Delhi. Mr Nandu Pradhan, President & Managing Director Red Hat India was also present on the occasion.

 

Speaking at the awards ceremony, Dr Deepak Phatak, Subharao M. Nilekani Chair Professor  & Head Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay said, "For a country like India, open source is emerging as a viable alternative to proprietary technologies. Academic institutions have pioneered the use of open source in R&D projects and IIT Bombay has built an Affordable Solutions Laboratory around open source software. It is therefore heartening to see open source software become mainstream and these awards are recognition of that."

 

Mr Gery Messer, President, Asia Pacific/Japan, Red Hat Asia Pacific commented, "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 Award is proof to this fact. With organizations 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"

Mr 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 Award. 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."

 

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, has been ranked first for value in Enterprise Software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value Study. Red Hat provides high quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture(SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.  Red Hat has been at the forefront of bringing the latest open source and Linux technology to India. Red Hat has enabled adoption of open source technology across segments - Government, enterprise and education. 

 

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