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8 Indians win CAs $1 million prize
By agencies
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Thursday, 19 May 2005, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: Eight Indians have won a worldwide information technology contest organized by Computer Associates (CA), winning a total prize of $1 million.
Five young computer professionals from New Delhi, two from Kerala and one from New York divided the CA Ingres Million Dollar Challenge.
The contestants were asked to create migration tool kits from Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL to CA's Ingres r3 open source platform.
Harsh Azad, Rohit Gaddi, Achal Rastogi, Geetanjali Bahuguna and Ashutosh Upadhyay - all employees of Trilogy E-business software, submitted the winning project, Shift2Ingres. The team won $400,000.
EzyMigrate created by Danes John and Varghese Jacob of Kerala was given the second prize of $100,000, while New York-based Bipin Panda's DbConverter won $50,000.
Emma K McGrattan, vice president of development for CA, said the winners reiterated the company's faith in young IT professionals in India. "This country has the world's best people in the field and people like our winners today prove that time and again.
"With the tools that they have created, organizations can easily and cost-effectively transition away from proprietary databases to take advantage of Ingres' highly scalable, feature-rich open source database platform."