LinuxWorld Announces Winners in Its 1999 Editors' Choice Awards

Business Wire, August 11, 1999

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 1999--

First-Place Tools, Companies, and Industry Leaders Named at

LinuxWorld Magazine's Awards Ceremony During LinuxWorld Expo

in San Jose

At a special awards ceremony held here today, LinuxWorld magazine announced the winners in the first-ever LinuxWorld Editors' Choice Awards. The event, held in conjunction with the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, took place on the show floor at the San Jose Convention Center.

Products from both commercial vendors and from the open source and free software communities were considered for awards. Winners and finalists in 17 awards categories were honored with trophies.

"Selecting products for Editors' Choice this year was an overwhelming experience. There's just so much terrific software available for Linux. It looks like we're going to have our hands full continuing to sort out the best of the best over the years.

"I was thrilled to see a few surprises in our list this year. Mandrake is a relative newcomer, and it snatched up 'Product of the Year.' Caldera 2.2 also swept us off our feet. You don't expect to see products of this caliber while Linux popularity is still in its infancy," Nick Petreley, editorial director of LinuxWorld magazine, said of the awards program.

THE WINNERS OF THE 1999 LINUXWORLD EDITORS' CHOICE AWARDS ARE: -0-

--  Distribution Server  Mandrake 6.0 (MandrakeSoft SA)
--  Distribution/Client  Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 (Caldera Systems Inc.)
--  Desktop Environment  KDE/KWM (KDE)
--  Security             Tripwire (Tripwire Security Systems Inc.)
--  Web Server           Apache (The Apache Software Foundation)
--  Mail Server          CommuniGate Pro (Stalker Software Inc.)
--  Productivity Application/Suite  StarOffice 5.1 (Star Division GmbH)
--  Database Management  PostgreSQL (Marc G. Fournier)
--  File Storage/Recovery Arkeia 4.0 (Knox Software Corp.)
--  Development Environment/Tools  X-Designer (Imperial Software
Technology)
--  Programming Library/Tools Qt 2.0 (Troll Tech)
--  Text Editing         Emacs (Richard M. Stallman)
--  File Management      Coda (M. Satyanarayanan)
--  Communication        Netscape Communicator (Netscape)
--  Graphics/Art         GIMP (Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and
Manish Singh)
--  Entertainment        Civilization: CTP (Activision and Loki
Entertainment Software)
--  Product of the Year  Mandrake 6.0 (MandrakeSoft SA)

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Ceremony

Awards were presented by Nick Petreley, Linux guru and both editorial director and lead judge for LinuxWorld. The majority of the ceremony focused on naming the winners and finalists, and presenting representatives from each company with trophies and awards collateral.

For detailed information on the complete list of finalists announced in July, categories, the judges, and the judging process, see http://www.wpi.com/linuxworld/lw-ec-winners.html.> About LinuxWorld

LinuxWorld (www.linuxworld.com) is a Web-only magazine dedicated to the technical information demands of professional Linux users such as network administrators, corporate developers, webmasters, and IS managers who need a basis for sound technical decision making as they implement Linux and related open source technologies in their computing environments. These leading enterprise technologists get in-depth editorial and analysis along with an open discussion forum that will accelerate their company's competitive edge in each issue.

LinuxWorld and its sister publications, JavaWorld, SunWorld, and Windows TechEdge, are Web-only publications of IDG Communications.

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