Software Development Magazine Announces 11th Annual Jolt Product Excellent and Productivity Award Winners
24 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 awarded by the most outstanding technologies and books issued by them every year. The award consists of six parts: language and application environment development; tools and design; books and computer basic training; replenishment procedures; libraries, frameworks and components; private procedures. The 361 products are nominated by readers, judges and vendors every year, and then select 44 of the Jury to compete for the winners above six areas.
(San Francisco) April 12, 2001-Winners of the 11th Annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards honoring the best software development products of 2000 were announced Wednesday, April 11th, 2001 by CMP's Software Development magazine 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-sponsored by the Rochester, NY-based Jolt Cola, the Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards are given to products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the difficult task of creating corporate 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 Unified 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 Alexandra Weber Morales adds," We'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 team of Software Development writers, contributing editors and columnists are Languages 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 THEE Productivity Awards Are Given for Each Category. Jolt Award Winners Receive A Coveted Tropy: a can of jolt cola encased in lucite.
The 11th Annual Jolt Product Excellent and Productivity Award Winners, by category, Are:
Books and Computer-Based Training: Jolt Award winner: Adaptive Software Development by James A. Highsmith III, published by Dorset House Productivity Award winners:.! Do not Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug, published by New Riders Publishing; Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier, published by John Wiley & Sons; Writing Effective Use Cases by 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.
Languages 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 SliciDit from MicroEdge
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