Linuxworld names finalists for Open Source product excellence awards

Posted 23 Jan 2003 at 15:24 UTC by yeupou Share This

They said that "The Open Source Product Excellence Awards are divided into ten product categories, representing major areas of innovation in the Linux and Open Source community. For the first time this year, Awards will be presented to the Best Front Office Solution, Best Cluster Solution and Best Sys Admin Tools."

Ximian Mono won in the category "Open Source". It's weird to get a category with such name for "Open Source product excellence awards", isn't it? But guess who were finalists...

Here comes the list of finalists. Can you guess the license of each product?

Best Network/Server Application
Computer Associates - Unicenter Management Portal for Linux
IBM - WebSphere Portal
JBoss - 3.0 Series
SuSE - Linux OpenExchange Server
Vision Solutions - ORION

Best Developer Tools
ActiveState - Komodo
APPX - 4.1.2
Bugopolis - Bug Station
IBM - Websphere Studio Appl. Developer V.5
LTrix - lice

Best Data Storage Solution
Computer Associates - BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Linux
IBM - Tivoli Storage Mgr
Novell - iFolder
Sistina - LVM 2.0
Storix - Backup

Best System Integration Software
Astaro - Security
BISIL North America Inc. - Enj-Ports
Computer Associates - CleverPath Aion Business Rules Expert
IBM - Integrated Platform for e-business on zSeries
Microsoft - Services for Unix 3.0
Voicetronix - OpenWiz

Best Security Solution
Astaro - Security Linux Version 3
Computer Associates - eTrust Antivirus
Cylant - CylantSecure 2.1
IBM - Tivoli Access Mgr

Best Open Source Project
Eclipse - R2.1
Ephibian, Inc. - dot.che
JBoss - 3.0
OpenOffice - 1.0
Vovida - Vocal 1.4.0
Ximian - Mono

Best Front Office Solution
ABAS - erp
IBM - WebSphere Portal for multi platforms
Novell - NetMail
Ximian - Evolution

Best Productivity Application
ABAS - erp
Computer Associates - Unicenter ServicePlus Service Desk
HRsmart - Applicant Tracking
IBM - iSeries Capacity on Demand
Ximian - Evolution

Best Cluster Solution
Computer Associates - Unicenter Network and Systems Management Cluster Management Option
HP - ProLiant BL20P G2 and BL40P with SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux
IBM - eServer Blade Center
Red Hat - Advanced Server
SGI - Altix 3000
Sun Microsystems - Grid Engine

Best Sys Admin Tools
ActiveState - PureMessage
Computer Associates - Unicenter Network and Systems Management
IBM - Director 4.1 on IBM e Server Blade Center
Novell - eDirectory 8.7
SCO- Volution Mgr
SuSE - YaST2
Ximian - Red Carpet enterprise

Well, there's at least one company who never made and do not currently make proprietary software (beside "open source" category). Did you find it?

(no doubt, some people will qualify this whole topic as troll)

Never made proprietary software, posted 24 Jan 2003 at 12:38 UTC by Omnifarious » (Journeyer)

Near as I can tell, it's RedHat.

As far as I know, most of those products do not have Open Source licenses at all. Am I mistaken in thinking this?

Correct, posted 24 Jan 2003 at 13:33 UTC by yeupou » (Master)

I think that you are perfectly right.

It's a small world, posted 24 Jan 2003 at 16:24 UTC by vinsci » (Master)

On the other hand, Red Hat worked on the Sony PlayStation 2, which as it happens employs a DRM scheme similar to Microsofts Xbox and TCPA/Palladium to ensure that memory chips in the machine are manufactured and sold by Sony and nobody else.

It would be nice to see Linuxworld do a similar list with only Open Source/Free Software products. Maybe we need a Debianworld...

Ximian would be another, posted 24 Jan 2003 at 20:39 UTC by fejj » (Master)

The Ximian software listed in the list above (Mono and Evolution) are also all Open Source.

Ximian is not another., posted 24 Jan 2003 at 21:32 UTC by yeupou » (Master)

For this reason, Ximian cannot be on that list (and it's not an hidden subproject but content of the ximian website front page).

Ximian does mostly Open Source, but not purely, posted 25 Jan 2003 at 05:42 UTC by Omnifarious » (Journeyer)

Yes, the Ximian products listed are Open Source, but Ximian is not purely an Open Source company. It has one (and only one that I know of) non-Open Source product. I'm betting it's because they only get to provide it because of a license from Microsoft.

Bugopolis?, posted 26 Jan 2003 at 13:47 UTC by gerv » (Master)

Well, the Bugopolis product contains Bugzilla and, as far as I can see from their website, they sell hardware with free software on top. So they don't sell proprietary software.

Gerv

Computer Associates, posted 27 Jan 2003 at 01:40 UTC by sye » (Journeyer)

Any comment on CA's grabbing quite a few medals?

lynx -head -dump http://www.linuxworldexpo.com, posted 28 Jan 2003 at 13:07 UTC by yeupou » (Master)

The following speaks about the whole thing's spirit: netcraft result for www.linuxworldexpo.com

OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 18-Jan-2003 161.58.83.40 Verio, Inc. unknown Microsoft-IIS/5.0 2-Nov-2002 161.58.83.40 Verio, Inc. Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 28-Sep-2002 161.58.83.40 Verio, Inc. NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 9-Sep-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc. NT4/Windows 98 unknown 8-Sep-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc. NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 20-Aug-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc. IRIX Rapidsite/Apa/1.3.26 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6e 19-Aug-2002 161.58.75.210 Verio, Inc. NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 23-Mar-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc. Linux Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.24_01 30-Jan-2002 66.216.65.7 Linux Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.24_01 28-Jan-2002 209.202.142.142 Exodus Communications Inc. Boston2

oops, posted 28 Jan 2003 at 13:15 UTC by yeupou » (Master)

OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner

Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 18-Jan-2003 161.58.83.40 Verio, Inc.

unknown Microsoft-IIS/5.0 2-Nov-2002 161.58.83.40 Verio, Inc. Windows 2000

Microsoft-IIS/5.0 28-Sep-2002 161.58.83.40 Verio, Inc. NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 9-Sep-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc.

NT4/Windows 98 unknown 8-Sep-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc.

NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 20-Aug-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc.

IRIX Rapidsite/Apa/1.3.26 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6e 19-Aug-2002 161.58.75.210 Verio, Inc.

NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 23-Mar-2002 64.124.73.43 Abovenet Communications, Inc.

Linux Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.24_01 30-Jan-2002 66.216.65.7

Linux Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.24_01 28-Jan-2002 209.202.142.142 Exodus Communications Inc. Boston2

Compilers Currently Installed on Livermore Computer Platforms, posted 28 Jan 2003 at 15:39 UTC by sye » (Journeyer)

I believe here's another finalists list. Is there any question about open or closed source on this list?

More fun, posted 30 Jan 2003 at 09:16 UTC by yeupou » (Master)

Apparently Microsoft won in his category.

Well, everybody knows that Microsoft has done so much for « Open Source », so it really deserves an « Open Source Award ».

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