LinuxWorld Names Finalists For Open Source Product Excellence Awards
FRAMINGHAM, MA – JANUARY 16, 2003 – IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for IT markets, today announced finalists for the LinuxWorld Open Source Product Excellence Awards, to be presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week. Sponsored by OSDN and presented in conjunction with the UniForum Association, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards recognize Open Source product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, the premier event exclusively focused on Linux and Open Source solutions, will take place January 21-24, 2003 at New York City's Javits Center. The Open Source Product Excellence Awards will be presented in a ceremony held on the LinuxWorld show floor on Wednesday, January 22 at 4:30 p.m.
The Open Source Product Excellence Awards are divided into ten product categories, representing major areas of innovation in the Linux and Open Source community. For the first time this year, Awards will be presented to the Best Front Office Solution, Best Cluster Solution and Best Sys Admin Tools.
Finalists include:
Best Network/Server Application
Computer Associates – Unicenter Management Portal
IBM – WebSphere Portal
JBoss – 3.0 Series
SuSE – Linux OpenExchange Server
Vision Solutions – ORION
Best Developer Tools
Active State – Komodo
APPX – 4.1.2
Bugopolis – Bug Station
IBM – Websphere Studio Appl. Developer V.5
LTrix – lice
Best Data Storage Solution
Computer Associates – BrightStor ARCserve Backup
IBM – Tivoli Storage Mgr
Novell – iFolder
Sistina – LVM 2.0
Storix – Backup
Best System Integration Software
Astaro – Security
BISIL North America Inc. – Enj-Ports
Computer Associates – Clever Path Aion
IBM – zSeries, Blue Ice, with DB2
Microsoft – Services for Unix 3.0
Voicetronix – OpenWiz
Best Security Solution
Astaro – Security Linux Version 3
Computer Associates – e-Trust Antivirus v7
Cylant – Secure 2.1
IBM – Tivoli Access Mgr
Best Open Source Project
Eclipse – R2.1
Ephibian, Inc. – dot.che
JBoss – 3.0
OpenOffice – 1.0
Vovida – Vocal 1.4.0
Ximian – Mono
Best Front Office Solution
ABAS – erp
IBM – WebSphere Portal for multi platforms