Linuxworld-Boston Awards

Wed Apr 05 17:32:22 -0700 2006
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The Product Excellence Awards have been announced at Linuxworld Boston. "Best of Show" is OpenSUSE.

this is from a businesswire release a little while ago, it hasn't been updated to the showsite yet as of this posting, near as I can see:
"IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets around the globe, in conjunction with Sys-Con Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, today announced the winners of the Product Excellence Awards at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R), held this week at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

"We're so thrilled to have the opportunity to recognize these companies that are making strides in innovating and improving existing products in the open source community," said Melinda Kendall, group vice president, IDG World Expo. "We'd like to congratulate all the winners, as well as our finalists, for making this year's Product Excellence Awards program at LinuxWorld Expo so competitive."

Divided into 12 product categories, including a "Best of Show" award, the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards recognize product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors. The judges were comprised from an independent panel of technical professionals, business professionals and journalists from the Linux and open source industry.

The "Best of Show" award, which recognizes the best total industry solution, was presented to Novell for their OpenSUSE product.

Additional award winners included:

                  Best Application Development Platform
Novell - Mono Development Framework
Best Clustering Solution
Continuent - Continuent p/Cluster
Best Desktop Solution
SunWah - Linux Rays LX 1.5
Best Grid Computing Solution
Themis - DCRM
Best Database Solution
Oracle - Oracle Database 10g Express Edition
Best Messaging Solution
Scalix - Scalix Appliance
Best Open Source Solution
Xchange Server 5 - Open
Best Security Solution
Barracuda Networks - Barracuda Spyware Firewall
Best Systems Management Tools
rPath Inc. - rBuilder
Best Virtualization Solution
SWsoft Inc. - Virtuozzo for Linux
Most Innovative Hardware
AMD - Dual Core AMD Opteron processors Models 885, 285 and 185
Best Integration Solution
Xandros - Xandros Server

"Xandros is not just a desktop company anymore and winning the award for Best Integration Solution is evidence of that," said Stephen E. Harris, vice president of communications, Xandros. "This award is also a tremendous affirmation of our business strategy, the awards program at LinuxWorld Expo, and a wonderful way to launch our product."

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo runs through April 6th at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. For more information on the event, visit www.linuxworldexpo.com."