According to a latest report, global software majors Microsoft, Google and IBM have bagged the Great Indian Developer Awards 2012 for their innovative products and applications at the IT developers' fifth annual summit. 

Sources informed, Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 has been selected in the development environment category and Google’s Android operating system has been nominated in the mobile development category. In addition, Microsoft's Security Essentials and SharePoint 2010 also bagged awards under the security category and the content management category. 

It is worth noticing, these awards are meant to recognize the product and innovation excellence of software products and tools that aid developer productivity. There were almost 11 categories in terms of functionality, usability, bleeding-edge quotient and feedback from the developer ecosystem. 

Gerard Rego, Nokia India head of ecosystem has shared his view on the occasion; many countries including India skipped the mainframe, PC and internet revolution but went directly to mobile. The role of mobile and telecommunications has a direct impact on the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth as research indicates.

Besides Microsoft, Google, other award winning products were IBM's Rational Rose in the modelling category, Collabnet's TeamForge in the change and configuration management category, Telerik's TeamPulse in the collaboration category, Dojo's ToolKit in the web development category and Oracle's Database 11g in the database category. 

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