Think Services' Dr. Dobb's Announces Finalists
for the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards
San Francisco — January 7, 2008 — Think Services' Dr. Dobb's today announced the finalists for
this year’s Jolt Product Excellence Awards. The 98 finalists in 16 categories were chosen
by a team of esteemed industry insiders, columnists, and technology leaders.
For the past 17 years, the Dr. Dobb's Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been
presented annually to showcase products that have “jolted” the industry with their
significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. Jolt
Cola, the fabled soft drink quaffed by software developers for sustenance during project
development marathons, sponsors the awards presentation.
"The Jolt judges have selected these finalists from among hundreds of qualified
nominations. The nominees represent a cross-section of innovative tools for every phase
of the software development lifecycle," said Amber Ankerholz, Conference Manager for
Dr. Dobb's Events. “In the next round of the process, the judges will take an in-depth
look at the finalists, examining the standard criteria of audience suitability, productivity,
innovation, quality, ROI, risk, and flexibility, but also seeking products that are: ahead of
the curve, universally useful, simple yet rich in functionality, or that have solved a
nagging problem in their product space."
The awards ceremony will take place on March 5, 2008 at the 21st Annual Software
Development Conference & Expo West at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
One Jolt Award and three Productivity Awards will be presented for each category.
The finalists are:
General Books
Beautiful Code Edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson (O'Reilly)
Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software by David Rice (Addison-Wesley
Professional)
Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management by Johanna
Rothman (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun (O'Reilly)
Outside In Software Development by Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer (IBM Press)
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard
(Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Technical Books
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul
Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover (Addison-Wesley Professional)
Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery by Michael Sutton, Adam Greene,
Pedram Amini (Addison-Wesley Professional)
Head First SQL Your Brain on SQL — A Learner's Guide by Lynn Beighley (O'Reilly)
The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez (Addison-Wesley Professional)
WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan (Sams Publishing)
xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros (Addison-Wesley
Professional)
Change and Configuration Management
AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase (AccuRev Inc)
FishEye (Atlassian formerly Cenqua)
IncrediBuild (Xoreax Software)
Perforce SCM system (Perforce Software)
Surround SCM (Seapine Software)
SourceGear DiffMerge (SourceGear, LLC)
Collaboration Tools
Code Collaborator (Smart Bear Inc)
Codebeamer 5.0 (Intland)
CollabNet CUBiT (CollabNet)
Confluence (Atlassian)
Mingle (Thoughtworks)
TeamCity (JetBrains)
Database Engines and Data Tools
Aleri Streaming Platform (Aleri)
AquaLogic Data Services Platform (BEA Systems, Inc)
Coral8 Engine (Coral8, Inc)
Crystal Reports (Business Objects)
DBArtisan (Embarcadero Technologies)
EnterpriseDB Advanced Server (EnterpriseDB Corp)
Toad for Oracle (Quest Software Inc)
Design and Modeling Tools
BigLever Software Gears (BigLever Software)
Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio (Corticon Technologies)
Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems Pty Ltd)
IBM Rational Software Architect (IBM)
Serena Mashup Composer (Serena Software)
Structure101 for Java (Headway Software)
Development Environments
Alpha Five version 8 (Alpha Software, Inc)
CodeRush/Refactor! Pro (Developer Express Inc)
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
Komodo IDE 4 (ActiveState)
NetBeans IDE 6 (Sun Microsystems)
QNX Momentics IDE 4 (QNX Software Systems)
Enterprise Tools
Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (Adobe Systems)
Foglight (Quest Software Inc)
Kapow Mashup Server - Web 2.0 Edition (Kapow Technologies)
OutSystems Platform 4.1 (OutSystems)
Rally Enterprise (Rally Enterprise)
Sugar 5.0 (SugarCRM)
Libraries, Frameworks and Components
Eclipse Modeling Project (Eclipse)
Guice (Google Inc)
JasperReports (JasperSoft)
Qt Jambi (Trolltech)
Spring Framework (SpringSource)
Zend Framework (Zend Technologies)
Mobile Development Tools
Adobe Device Central CS3 (Adobe Systems, Inc)
Eclipse Embedded Rich Client Platform (Eclipse Foundation)
Mojax (mFoundry)
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
SunJava Wireless Tk/Netbeans Mobility (Sun Microsystems)
VirtualLogix VLX (VirtualLogix)
Project Management Tools
Easy Projects .NET (Logic Software Inc)
Rally Enterprise (Rally Enterprise)
ResultSpace (Sapient)
Software Planner (Pragmatic Software)
TargetProcess On-Demand (TargetProcess)
TeamCity (JetBrains)
Security Tools
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (BEA Systems, Inc)
Crowd (Atlassian)
Defensics (Codenomicon, Ltd)
Fortify Defender (Fortify Software)
GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform (GuardianEdge)
Ounce (Ounce Labs)
Testing Tools
Clover 2.0 (Atlassian)
JUnit Factory (Agitar Software)
LISA 4 SOA Testing & Validation (iTKO, Inc)
Quest Code Tester for Oracle (Quest Software Inc)
SOAPscope Tester (Mindreef, Inc)
SQLscaler (Idera/BBS Technologies)
TestComplete Enterprise (AutomatedQA)
Utilities
Adobe Captivate 3 (Adobe Systems, Inc)
Adobe RoboHelp 7 (Adobe Systems, Inc)
ANTS Profiler V3 (Red Gate)
DemoWorks 2007 (ComponentOne)
Toad for Data Analysis (Quest Software Inc)
VMware Workstation (VMware)
Web Development Tools
3rdRail (CodeGear)
Adobe ColdFusion 8 (Adobe Systems, Inc)
Appcelerator Platform (Appcelerator, Inc)
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
RSSBus (/n software)
Web Sites/Developer Networks
CM Crossroads (CMC Media, Inc)
DevZone (Zend Technologies, Inc)
.NET Rocks! and dnrTV (Franklins.Net)
O'Reilly Radar (O'Reilly Media, Inc)
Safari Books Online (Safari Books Online)
www.codeproject.com (The Code Project)
More information on the Jolt Product Excellence Awards is available at
http://www.joltawards.com/.
To attend the awards ceremony, register for a free SD West 2008 Expo pass or press
badge at http://www.sdexpo.com.
About Dr. Dobb's
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professional software development community. With an award-winning monthly
publication (Dr. Dobb's Journal), world-wide technical events and conferences (Dr.
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Dobb's attracts the industry's most authoritative audience of professional developers,
architects and managers and provides marketing partners highly actionable integrated
marketing solutions to reach the software development buying team.
About Think Services
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