CMP Technology Announces Winners of the 17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

Industry Leaders and Newcomers Recognized for Innovation and Technological Excellence

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Mar 22, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of Dr. Dobb's Journal announced the winners of the 17th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards during the Awards Ceremony at CMP Technology's Software Development West 2007 Conference and Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

"This year was an exceptionally exciting year for our judges, since there were so many strong contenders in every category," said Rosalyn Lum, conference and events manager for Dr. Dobb's Events. "The winners reflect that innovation is still alive: It was especially satisfying to see leaders still leading the way and at the same time, newcomers changing how developers work by giving them great new products that reflect the changing software development landscape."

Here is a complete list of the 17th Annual Jolt Award Winners:

1. Books General
Jolt Winner:
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game by Alistair Cockburn
(Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Winners:
Catastrophe Disentanglement by E. M. Bennatan (Addison-Wesley)
Practices of an Agile Developer by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
(Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell
(Microsoft Press)

2. Books Technical
Jolt Winner:
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design by Brett McLaughlin, Gary
Pollice, and David West (O'Reilly)
Productivity Winners:
Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis (Addison-Wesley)
Refactoring Databases by Scott W. Ambler and Pramod J. Sadalage
(Addison-Wesley)
CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland (O'Reilly)

3. Change and Configuration Management
Jolt Winner:
AccuRev 4.5 with AccuWorkflow (AccuRev)
Productivity Winners:
AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
Perforce SCM (Perforce)
Team Foundation Server (Microsoft)

4. Collaboration Tools
Jolt Winner:
Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
Productivity Winners:
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
TeamCity (JetBrains)

5. Database Engines and Data Tools
Jolt Winner:
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)
Productivity Winners:
Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
Dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)

6. Design and Modeling Tools
Jolt Winner:
stpBA Storyboarding for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System
(stpsoft)
Productivity Winners:
Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio (Corticon)
MagicDraw UML (No Magic)
Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite (DataDirect Technologies)

7. Development Environments
Jolt Winner:
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
Productivity Winners:
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
IronPython (Microsoft)
Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research)

8. Enterprise Tools
Jolt Winner:
Cape Clear ESB Platform (Cape Clear Software)
Productivity Winners:
Liferay Portal (Liferay
Appistry EAF (Appistry)
Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pentaho)

9. Libraries, Frameworks and Components
Jolt Winner:
NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)
Productivity Winners:
JViews (ILOG)
.NET Framework 3.0 (Microsoft)
Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel)

10. Mobile Development Tools
Jolt Winner:
Carbide .c++ Professional Edition (Nokia)
Productivity Winners:
Crossfire (AppForge)
NetBeans Mobility Pack and Sun Java Wireless Tookit (Sun Microsystems)
Qtopia (Trolltech)

11. Project Management
Jolt Winner:
Rally Enterprise (Rally Software)
Productivity Winners:
6th Sense Analytics (6th Sense Analytics)
Teamwork (Open Lab)
V1: Agile Enterprise (VersionOne)

12. Security
Jolt Winner:
AppScan (Watchfire)
Productivity Winners:
DevInspect (SPI Dynamics)
Fortify Source Code Analysis (Fortify)
Metasploit Framework (Metasploit)

13. Testing
Jolt Winner:
AgitarOne (Agitar Software)
Productivity Winners:
Mindreef SOAPscope (Mindreef)
Parasoft SOAtest (Parasoft)
TestComplete (AutomatedQA)

14. Bug and Defect Tracking
Jolt Winner:
TestTrack Studio (Seapine Software)
Productivity Winners:
JIRA (Atlassian Software Systems)
OnTime 2007 (Axosoft)
Software Planner Professional (Pragmatic Software)

15. Utilities
Jolt Winner:
VMware Lab Manager (VMware)
Productivity Winners:
Adobe Captivate 2 (Adobe)
ElectricCommander (Electric Cloud)
Textmate (MacroMates)

16. Web Development
Jolt Winner:
Adobe Flex 2 (Adobe Systems)
Productivity Winners:
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
Mindreef SOAPscope Server (Mindreef)
NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 (Sun Microsystems)

17. Websites and Developer Networks
Jolt Winner:
Sun Developer Network (Sun Microsystems)
Productivity Winners:
CM Crossroads (CMC Media)
Koders.com (Koders)
Krugle (Krugle)

HALL OF FAME WINNER
IBM developerWorks

Complete Jolt Awards details are available at http://www.joltawards.com/.

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jsearles@cmp.com
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