The Hindu Business Line : Indian ingenuity on show at global Java mela

AT THE PAVILION: Hyderabad-based Pramati Technologies' co-founders, Mr Vijay Pullar (left), Chief Technology Officer, and Mr Jay Pullar, Chief Executive Officer, at the company's stand at JavaOne in San Francisco, where they launched the company's new product, Dekoh. — Anand Parthasarathy

San Francisco May 13 If San Francisco was host last week to the world's largest gathering of software programmers, India, home to one of the largest Java communities, was inexplicably not too visible.

Among the 90-odd exhibitors who took part in pavilion held to showcase products at the week-long JavaOne Conference, only a handful could be said to be Indian.

Hyderabad-based Pramati Technologies, for long recognised as leaders in Java-based `middleware', used the event to unveil its new product, `Dekoh' (`see'), a clever marrying of desktop and Web-based applications. The Pullar brothers, who founded the company in 1998 (Jay is the India-based CEO, Vijay is the San Jose (California)-based CTO), told Business Line, they found wide interest both in the developer community as well as among entrepreneurs in their new brainchild that they have placed for free evaluation on their Web site.

Also with a Hyderabad umbilical, was Santa Clara (California)-based Yasu Technologies, whose CEO, Mr Satish Madhira, has helped create the loan processor solution, QuickRules.

At JavaOne, the company was showcasing a wider range of Java-based business rules solutions.

Tibco, another Silicon Valley-based company, known for its real time business integration tool sets, was also showcasing its offerings — driven by the Predictive Business model authored by its CEO, Mr Vivek Ranadive.

However, the handful of companies represented only a fraction of the IP that is flowing from India to the global Java-based business.

Two well-known Indian faces leading the US-end of the technology industry — Mr Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice-President (Application Servers) at Oracle and Ms Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer at Motorola — were among the keynote speakers at JavaOne, where parent company Sun Microsystems announced the complete `freeing' of Java as a fully open source platform.