WASHINGTON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- GCN's Best of FOSE Awards singled out
the most innovative and well-designed new products at FOSE this year. A panel
of Government Computer News and Washington Technology editors visited
exhibitors' booths on the opening day of the FOSE show, Tuesday, April 5th,
and on the following day, Wednesday, April 6th, the judges determined the
winners. GCN's Lab Analysts, John Breeden II and Carlos Soto, awarded the
winners their prizes at their booths and posed for photos.
Of the 12 winners, Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve 3400CL Series Switches won
Best of Show. John Breeden II, Lab Director and Senior Technology Analyst for
GCN said, "With a 10 Gigabyte backplane and 48 auto-speed-sensing ports, you
can have every user on your network communicating at wire speed, even at peak
network times."
Tom Temin, Editor-in-Chief, remarked on the variety and quality of this
year's nominees: "Government customers want products that are secure,
manageable, and solve problems. This year's crop of winners showed not just
some remarkable innovation, but also a keen sense of the kinds of problems
customers are trying to solve."
Government Computer News writers, editors, and lab experts discussed the
winning technologies, as well as other new technologies on display at FOSE
during a live taping in the radio booth on the show floor on Thursday, April
7th. The taped discussion will air Friday, April 8th on WFED Federal News
Radio AM 1050. To obtain a copy of the show, visit
http://www.federalnewsradio.com and click on the archive section. Right-click
on the link and select "Save Target As." The entire show will download as a
windows media file.
Below are the winning products and their categories for GCN's Best of FOSE
2005.
Product Company Product Category
Telkonet PLC Telkonet Networking Hardware
VoteFiler Comfidex Corporation Other
Gateway 9415 Server Gateway Servers
Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server Adobe Desktop System
Software
Comet12 Tadpole Computer, Portable PCs
Inc.
Intel Centrino Mobile Intel Portable PCs
Technology
Altova XML Spy 2005 Altova Desktop System
Software
TransPort X3100 MPC Portable PCs
Apple Remote Desktop 2 Apple Enterprise System
Software
Kodak i660 Scanner Eastman Kodak Network Scanners
HP XW 9300 Workstation Hewlett-Packard Desktop Computers
HP Procurve 3400 CL Hewlett-Packard Networking Hardware
Series Switches
About Government Computer News
Government Computer News is the leading newsmagazine in the government IT
market. GCN reaches program managers, technology managers and agency
executives with decision-making authority. Published 30 times a year and
founded in 1982, each issue features special reports, case studies and
analysis, product reviews and buyer's guides.
About PostNewsweek Tech Media
PostNewsweek Tech Media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Washington
Post Company (NYSE: WPO), offering carefully focused national publications,
web sites, trade shows and conferences for the government IT market. Among
other leading products, PostNewsweek Tech Media includes Government Computer
News, the leading newsmagazine in the government IT market; Washington
Technology, the only national information technology newsmagazine published
for government systems integrators and resellers; Government Leader, launched
in 2005, a quarterly publication focused on issues important to government and
industry executives, and FOSE, the largest technology event for government.
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