Gala show at the DQW Awards nite

The second annual DQ Week Awards for East India arrived with a gala nite at
the Taj Bengal, Kolkata. The much awaited award show was opened on August 24,
2005 to the packed hall of more than 370 audiences at the Crystal Hall
comprising of who's who of the entire channel community.

To acknowledge the importance of the channel community and to give
recognition to the excellent work done by them, 25 awards were given in seven
categories covering 10 cities of Eastern India. Also, two new categories were
introduced this year for Kolkata region -Software Reseller and Media resellers.
Chabria Infotech and Lalani Infotech were the award winners in the new category.

The DQ Week Awards were decided by an independent panel after much
deliberations and weighing the credibility of the contenders based on certain
given parameters that included overall reach of the channel partner, service
attitude of the long term commitment to the business, quantum of business done,
financial strength and expertise and knowledge of the channel partner in the
products he sells.

The panel comprised Prashant Prakash of HCL, Mandeep Bhandari of Intel,
Sanjay Ray of Xerox and Sanjay Joshi of Redington.

The chief guest on the occasion was Dr G D Gautama, Principal Secretary, Dept
of Information Technology, Govt of West Bengal. The other honourable guests
included Natesh Mani, Executive Director (New Office Group), Xerox; Shrikant
Bapat, VP, Emersion India and Pradeep Gupta, CMD and Publisher, Cyber Media
India Ltd. Referring to the overwhelming response of the entire industry who
gathered to witness the extravaganza in spite of all odds like heavy and
incessant shower and taxi strike, Dr Gautama congratulated the entire team of DQ
Week and thanked them for their untiring effort to highlight the growth of IT in
the state as well as in entire Eastern India and also for playing a pioneering
role in articulating the issues and concerns of the region's channel
community. Pradeep Gupta took the opportunity to share with the channel
community the splendid success of Cyber Media IPO.

Xerox presented the DQWK awards night in association with Emerson, Unistal,
Mora and Isyn as the regional sponsors. The award ceremony was preceded by a
brief and colorful presentation by Natesh Mani which focused on the enter
printer and MFD range of Xerox products.

The mega hit DQWK award ceremony was concluded on a thanksgiving speech by
Kingshuk Sircar, National Sales Manager of Cyber Media.

Keeping in mind the overall success of the second Annual DQ Week Awards Nite
in Kolkata one should not forget that The DQ Week, Kolkata is even less than six
months old and this is the first ever award ceremony hosted after the DQWK issue
was first launched in March 2005. This stupendous success is an example of the
everlasting relationship between the entire channel community of East India, the
vendors and the DQWK team. It is also going to be another worthy wait for a year
when the next DQWK Award Nite will arrive to celebrate the channel excellence in
the region.

DQW News Bureau

Kolkata