CMP Media’s Software Development Magazine Announces Winners
for the 13th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

44 Products and One Hall of Fame Winner Honored

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2003 - Winners of the 13th Annual Software Development Excellence and Productivity Awards were announced March 26 by the editors of Software Development magazine. The ceremony was held at the SD West Conference & Exposition at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

For the past 13 years, the awards have been presented annually to those products, books and websites that have jolted the industry by helping developers create better software. Jolt cola, the fabled soft drink quaffed by software developers for sustenance during development projects, sponsors the awards presentation.

More than 55 companies and 300 attendees were present at the awards ceremony, which honored industry luminaries including Robert C. Martin (President, Object Mentor Inc.), Mark Colan (Lead E-Business Technology Evangelist, IBM), Mansour Safi (President & CEO, M7 Corp).

“This year’s Jolt Awards was an incredibly intense process,” said Technical Editor Rosalyn Lum. “As well as increasing the number of categories to reflect evolving technology, the complexity of the programs and their interconnectivity requirements increased. I give full credit to this year’s panel of judges for choosing winners who reflect the field’s continued excellence and innovation.”

Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Weber Morales added, “I’m happy that, along with some perennial favorites, we saw newcomers and lesser-known tools honored this year. Since 1990, the Jolt Awards have been remarkably prescient in mapping the course of software tools and technologies. This year’s results reaffirm the power of agility in transforming development, make it clear that Web services are pushing past the corporate firewall and portend a bright future for Java. Thankfully, innovation in the lifecycle tools market is alive and well.”

One Jolt Award and three Productivity Awards were presented for each category, with Jolt Product Excellence Award winners receiving the coveted trophy: a statue of the new electric-blue Jolt cola.

By category, the 2003 winners are:

Books—General

Jolt Award: Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices by Robert C. Martin (Prentice Hall)
Productivity Award: Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed
Little, Robert Nord, and Judith Stafford (Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler (Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck (Addison- Wesley)

Books—Technical

Jolt Award: Thinking in Java (3rd edition) by Bruce Eckel (Prentice Hall PTR)
Productivity Award: Understanding Web Services by Eric Newcomer (Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Core Java 2, Vol. 1: Fundamentals (6th edition) by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell (Prentice Hall PTR)
Productivity Award: PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson (Sams Publishing)

Business Integration and Data Tools

Jolt Award: Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect (Microsoft)
Productivity Award: Macromedia ColdFusion MX (Macromedia)
Productivity Award: SQL Anywhere Studio (Sybase)
Productivity Award: IBM WebSphere Studio (IBM)

Design and Analysis Tools

Jolt Award: Together WebSphere Studio Edition (TogetherSoft, now part of Borland)
Productivity Award: ArgoUML
Productivity Award: Codagen Architect 3.0 (Codagen)
Productivity Award: SmartDraw (SmartDraw.com)

Languages and Development Environments

Jolt Award: Borland JBuilder 8 Performance Bundle (Borland)
Productivity Award: Groove Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET (Groove Networks)
Productivity Award: IntelliJ IDEA 3.0 (JetBrains)
Productivity Award: XMLSPY 5 Enterprise Edition (Altova)

Libraries, Frameworks, and Components

Jolt Award: .NET Compact Framework 1.0 (Microsoft)
Productivity Award: CLX Library (Borland)
Productivity Award: ComponentOne Studio Enterprise (ComponentOne)
Productivity Award: JClass (Sitraka, now part of Quest Software)

Project Management Tools

Jolt Award: TestTrack Pro (Seapine Software)
Productivity Award: MKS Integrity Manager with MKS Source Integrity (MKS)
Productivity Award: Perforce (Perforce Software)
Productivity Award: Select Process Director (Select Business Solutions, formerly Aonix)

Testing Tools

Jolt Award: Borland Optimizeit Suite 5 (Borland)
Productivity Award: JProbe (Quest Software, formerly Sitraka)
Productivity Award: SilkTest (Segue)
Productivity Award: WebQA (Watchfire)

Utilities

Jolt Award: InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition (Zero G)
Productivity Award: Anthill (Urbancode)
Productivity Award: DevPartner Java Edition (Compuware)
Productivity Award: RoboHelp X3 (eHelp)

Web Services Tools

Jolt Award: BEA WebLogic Workshop (BEA Systems)
Productivity Award: M7 Application Assembly Platform (M7)
Productivity Award: SOAPScope 1.0 (Mindreef)
Productivity Award: SOAPtest (Parasoft)

Websites and Developer Networks

Jolt Award: IBM alphaWorks (IBM)
Productivity Award: BEA Dev2Dev Online (BEA Systems)
Productivity Award: JavaRanch.com
Productivity Award: QAForums.com (BetaSoft)

Hall of Fame

MSDN (Microsoft)

More information on the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards is available at www.sdmagazine.com.

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