Announcement of the jolt outstanding technology and Book Awards for the Global Software Industry

 

Software DevelopmentMagazine announces 11th Annual jolt product excellence and Productivity Award winners24 winners selected from online nominations by readers, software vendors and jolt award judges

Note: Software Development> is one of the most famous software development magazines in the United States, jolt award and Productivity Awards are the annual awards awarded to the world's software industry's most outstanding technology and books. The prize consists of six parts: language and application environment development, use of tools and design, Basic Books and computer training, replenishment procedures, libraries, frameworks and components, and specialized programs. Each year, 361 products are nominated by readers, reviewers, and sellers, and 44 items are selected by the Panel to compete for the winners in the above six fields.

 

(San Francisco) limit l 12,200 1-Winners of the 11th Annual jolt product excellence and Productivity Awards honoring the best software development products of 2000 were announced Wednesday, limit l 11th, 2001 by CMP'sSoftware DevelopmentMagazine editors. the awards ceremony was held at the software development West conference and exposition at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose ca. co-Sort sored by the Rochester, NY-based Jolt Cola,Software DevelopmentJolt product excellence and Productivity Awards are given to products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the difficult task of creating initialize ATE software faster, easier and more efficient. jolt, "the most powerful cola," is the fabled soft drink used by software programmers to get them through complex development projects.

"Almost all of the important new development paradigms that surfaced in the past ten years-the uniied modeling language, open-source software, the web, and java-have been recognized with jolt or Productivity Awards, "said technical editor Roger Smith. "This years winner's-highlighting trends like lightweight methodologies, support for multiple operating system platforms, and innovative modeling solutions-continue that excellent tradition into a new decade."

Editor in chief Alexander Ra Weber Morales adds, "We're re pleased with the increasing reader and industry response to this venerable competition, and we plan to keep it evolving and growing. roger and I also have a ball every year putting on the awards ceremony."

The six categories of tools nominated and chosen by a teamSoftware DevelopmentWriters, contributing editors and columnists are supported ages and development environments, design and management tools, books and computer-based training, libraries, frameworks and components, special/other, and utilities and deployment tools. one jolt award and two to three Productivity Awards are given for each category. jolt Award Winners receive a coveted trophy: A can of Jolt Cola encased in Lucite.

The 11th Annual jolt product excellence and Productivity Award winners, by category, are:

Books and computer-based training:Jolt Award winner:Adaptive Software DevelopmentBy James A. Highsmith III, published by Dorset house. Productivity Award Winners:Don't make me think! A common sense approach to web usabilityBy Steve Krug, published by new riders publishing;Secrets and liesBy Bruce Schneier, published by John Wiley & Sons;Writing valid tive Use CasesBy Alistair Cockburn, published by Addison Wesley Longman.

Utilities and deployment tools:Jolt Award Winner: VMWare for Linux/Windows from VMware. Productivity Award Winners: XML spy from altova, jtest from parasoft, and coderover browser from upspring software.

Design and management tools:Jolt Award Winner: gdpro from Embarcadero Technologies Inc. Productivity Award Winners: Together control center from togethersoft, WebSphere Studio from IBM, and esetweb from software productivity center Inc.

Libraries, frameworks and components:Jolt Award Winner: softwire from softwire Technology LLC. Productivity Award Winners: bold for Delphi from boldsoft, and visualsoft crypt from visualsoft Technologies Limited.

Special/Other:Jolt Award Winner: Dreamweaver ultradev from Macromedia.
Productivity Award Winners: Flash from Macromedia, SQL Anywhere studio from Sybase and EJB specification 2.x from Sun Microsystems.

Ages and development environments:Jolt Award Winner: JBuilder from Borland. Productivity Award Winners: Weblogic EJB server from BEA Systems, webgain studio from webgain Corp., And Zope from digital creations.

Hall of Fame Award:Visual slickedit from microedge

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