100% focus on Developers. This is the motto of CodeGear, the erstwhile Borland Developer Tools Group. As an independent company, the CodeGear team works towards advancing and supporting the product lines like JBuilder, Delphi, C++Builder, Turbo and InterBase. They are also innovating in new areas such as Ruby on Rails with their 3rdRail product, PHP with Delphi for PHP, and Java development using Eclipse with JBuilder 2007 and the JGear Eclipse plug-ins. Here Jim Douglas, Chief Executive Officer of CodeGear, and Ravi Kumar, Principal Architect at the Java tools group at CodeGear, speak about the company's plans to move the developer community to the next level in their applications development and productivity.

SDA India spoke to the Marketing Director for Alliances and Teleweb sales for Sun Microsystems in India, KP Unnikrishnan on how Sun is making sure that Sun technologies are known by every stakeholder or every prospective stakeholder for Sun, how Sun runs strategic initiatives to increase sales, making sure that we are constantly growing double than the industry standard, and, generally, outperform the competition...

Service Oriented Architecture enables innovation in business by ensuring that IT companies can adapt quickly, easily and economically to support rapidly changing business needs.

Industry analysts predict that BPO will slowly give way to the BPU. It is said that as the BPO market continues to move toward mass customization, business processes will increasingly be accessed as utilities, offering common services to multiple clients, making way for the BPU. SDA India spoke to C.V.Prakash, CEO of Gradatim, a BPU services provider, who uses platforms built using principles of SOA...

Tim Bray talks about how Java will be maintained under the GPL 2, the governance model for open source Java, two governance models, if we  can expect, that the open sourcing of Java's implementation will generate much more dynamics than the Java Community Process and much more...

According to Rick Jackson, Borland has had a long, and successful history of supporting software development, and that continues to be the case as we move forward. For many years, that support was best expressed via Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) focused on developer productivity. But the world of software has evolved dramatically. Most companies...

Sven Haiges spoke to Ajit Jaokar, an advocate for innovation within the mobile data industry to better understand Mobile web 2.0, and the wider impact of web 2.0 on the mobile data industry. Ajit is also a recognised author and a champion in the industry for his views on OpenGardens i.e. opening up the walled gardens of the telecoms industry...

Commenting on the relationship between OpenSolaris and Linux, Sun Microsystems' Chief Technology Evangelist, Simon Phipps said, "OpenSolaris is not in any way related to Linux. It is actually about empowering the Solaris community, and taking Solaris into the participation age".

Peter Kriens, OSGi evangelist said, "The OSGi Framework is a much more mature and system-oriented environment, not restricted by the game focus of MIDP".