[roevermca1996] Eight Indians have won a major worldwide information

Eight Indians have won a major worldwide information technology contest organised by Computer Associates (CA), winning a total prize bag of $1 million. Five young computer professionals from New Delhi, two from Kerala and one veteran from New York divided the CA Ingres Million Dollar Challenge that drew thousands of applications from around the world. The contestants were asked to create migration tool kits from Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL to CA's Ingres r3 open source platform. "It was a very difficult challenge. I have spent my life in this and it's a challenge even to me," said Emma K McGrattan, vice president of development for CA, at the award ceremony on Wednesday. "I am delighted to say that these people did a fabulous job." The winning project, Shift2Ingres, was submitted by Harsh Azad, Rohit Gaddi, Achal Rastogi, Geetanjali Bahuguna and Ashutosh Upadhyay - all employees of Trilogy E-business software. 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. "It is truly a dream come true," said Azad, standing before a giant world map that had the outline of India in blinking lights showing that all the winners were from this country. "This has proved once again that Indians are the best in IT, that we can hold our own against the best of the world and come out tops." McGrattan 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, organisations can easily and cost-effectively transition away from proprietary databases to take advantage of Ingres' highly scalable, feature-rich open source database platform." New York-headquartered CA was started in 1976 and had revenues of $3.38 billion last year. It has 15,000 employees in 140 countries.

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