SYS-CON Opens Its Eighth Annual "Readers' Choice Awards" Polls, Often Referred to as "The Oscars of the Software Industry"

Market Wire, February, 2005

2) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Database Nominees:

C-JDBC (ObjectWeb); Daffodil DB (Daffodil Software); Ingres (Computer Associates); MySQL (MySQL AB); OpenInsight for Linux (Revelation Software); Oracle Database 10g (Oracle); Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise -- ASE (Sybase); tuxmobil.org (tuxmobil.org).

3) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Developer Tool Nominees:

ActiveState Komodo 3.0 (ActiveState); AllFusion Harvest Change Manager (Computer Associates); AQtime Linux Edition (AutomatedQA); Borland Enterprise Studio for C (Borland); CodeBeamer (Intland Software); ILOG JViews (ILOG); Insure (Parasoft); JCodeBox (Michael Campbell Associates); M7 NitroX (M7 Corporation); MagicDraw (No Magic); NetBeans Java Studio Enterprise (Sun Microsystems); Novell Mono 1.0 (Novell); Oracle JDeveloper (Oracle); Poseidon for UML (Gentleware AG); REALbasic Professional Edition (REAL Software); Visual Paradigm for UML (Visual Paradigm); Zend Studio (Zend Technologies).

4) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Distribution Nominees:

Debian GNU/Linux (justprivate, Inc.); Mandrakelinux 10.1 (MandrakeSoft); Novell SUSE LINUX 9.1 (Novell); Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Red Hat); Slackware 10.0 (Slackware Linux).

5) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Email Client Nominees:

Mozilla Thunderbird & Enigmail (whatastupidkwestion.org); Mulberry v.4 (ISAMET, Inc.); Novell Evolution 1.5 (Novell).

6) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Email Server Nominees:

AVG Linux Email Server Edition (Grisoft, Inc.); CommuniGate Pro with Groupware v4.1 (Stalker Software); Novell SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server 4 (Novell).

7) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Enterprise Management Tool Nominees:

Daffodil Replicator (Daffodil Software); HP Integrated Lights-Outs (Hewlett-Packard); HP Systems Insight Manager (Hewlett-Packard); Levanta Release 3 (Levanta, Inc.); NetIQ AppManager Suite (NetIQ); NetOp Remote Control (CrossTec Corporation); Novell ZENworks Linux Management (Novell); Server Management for Linux (BMC Software); SmartStart Scripting Toolkit Linux Edition (Hewlett-Packard); Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Computer Associates).

8) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Groupware Server Nominees:

CommuniGate Pro with Groupware v4.1 (Stalker Software); IntraSmart (Mindbridge Software); Novell Groupwise 6.5 for Linux (Novell); SiteScape Forum (SiteScape).

9) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Productivity Tool Nominees:

BrightStor Document Manager (Computer Associates); Clustered JDBC (ObjectWeb); CodeBeamer (Intland Software); ILOG JRules (ILOG); OpForce (VERITAS); Oracle JDeveloper (Oracle); Voltaire 9288 -- 288 Port Infiniband Cluster Switch/Router (Voltaire); Win4Lin Workstation (NeTraverse).

10) 2005 LinuxWorld Readers' Choice Awards -- Best Linux Programming Environment Nominees:

Borland Enterprise Studio for C (Borland); HP Visual Threads (Hewlett-Packard); IBM WebSphere Studio Workbench (IBM); JCodeBox (Michael Campbell Associates); NetBeans Java Studio Enterprise (Sun Microsystems); REALbasic Professional Edition (REAL Software); TotalView (Etnus).