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| CMP Media's Software Development Magazine Announces 2002 Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Award Winners |
23 Products and One Hall of Fame Winner Honored
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Winners of the 2002
Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards were
announced on Wednesday, April 24, 2002 by the editors of CMP's Software
Development magazine. The 12th annual awards ceremony, a formal, entertaining
affair, was held at the Software Development West Conference and Exposition at
the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. Cosponsored by the
Rochester, New York-based Wet Planet Beverages and their popular soft drink
brand, Jolt, the Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity
Awards are given to products that have "jolted" the industry with their
significance, making the difficult task of creating corporate software faster,
easier and more efficient. Jolt, "the most powerful cola," is the fabled soft
drink quaffed by software programmers to get them through complex development
projects.
"Choosing the award winners from the 700-plus nominations and 49 finalists
was a massive, though enjoyable, task," said Technical Editor John Reitano.
"This year's crop of winners clearly indicates that the spirit of innovation
is alive and well in the software development sector."
Editor in Chief Alexandra Weber Morales added, "The products highlighted
in the 2002 Software Development Jolt awards push the envelope of what's
possible. We're extremely pleased with the increasing reader and industry
response to this venerable competition, and we plan to keep it evolving. John
and I are already planning next year's extravaganza. We're especially pleased
with the enthusiasm evident in the Jolt acceptance speeches. There was a
palpable energy in the audience yesterday."
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. Productivity award winners received a Lucite plaque. The
2002 winners by category are:
Books
Jolt Award: Effective Java by Joshua Bloch (Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn
(Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Software Craftsmanship by Pete McBreen
(Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Under Pressure and On Time by Ed Sullivan
(Microsoft Press)
Libraries, Frameworks, and Components
Jolt Award: Microsoft .NET Framework
Productivity Award: Sun Microsystems J2EE
Productivity Award: ILOG JRules
Productivity Award: Trolltech Qt
Languages and Development Environments
Jolt Award: IntelliJ IDEA
Productivity Award: Borland Delphi 6 and Kylix 2
Productivity Award: Borland JBuilder
Productivity Award: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Design Tools and Processes
Jolt Award: Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Productivity Award: Embarcadero Describe
Productivity Award: Macromedia Sitespring
Utilities
Jolt Award: Sitraka JProbe Suite
Productivity Award: Apache Software Foundation Ant
Productivity Award: VMware VM Workstation
Productivity Award: preEmptive Solutions DashO-Pro
Web Sites and Developer Networks
Jolt Award: Google Groups
Productivity Award: Microsoft MSDN
Productivity Award: IBM developerWorks
Productivity Award: WikiWikiWeb
Hall of Fame
Borland Software Corporation
Software Development celebrates technology solutions that are not only
cost-effective, but elegant. Covering every facet of the design-build-test-
deploy lifecycle, the magazine provides 100,000 senior software engineers and
technical managers with news, product reviews, opinions, management tips and
technical how-to articles. Software Development's signature style employs
humor, a sense of history and original journalism about the people, programs
and processes at work in real-world domains. Software Development readers, who
average more than 10 years' experience in the field, are trailblazing
professionals who care passionately about enlivening and expediting the task
of delivering successful software on time and under budget.
Software Development magazine is part of CMP Media LLC's Software
Development Media Group, which also publishes Dr. Dobb's Journal, MSDN, C/C++
Users Journal, Windows Developer's Journal, Byte and SysAdmin; holds the
semiannual Software Development Conference and Exposition; and produces 15 Web
sites. The Software Development Media Group reaches the largest, most
influential audience of software developers and business solution providers
available through a single media company.
CMP Media LLC (http://www.cmp.com) is a leading high-tech media company providing
essential information and marketing services to the entire technology
spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing
on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers
comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual
needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines,
Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and
training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and
consulting.
More information on the Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and
Productivity Awards is available at http://www.sdmagazine.com.
CONTACT: Alexandra Weber Morales, Editor in Chief, +1-415-947-6170, or
aweber@cmp.com, or Paul Calento, Associate Publisher, +1-415-947-6185, or
pcalento@cmp.com, both of Software Development Magazine.
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