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IDG's InfoWorld Announces Winners of Annual Product of the Year Award
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2000--IDG's InfoWorld, the IT newsweekly that defines technology for business,today announced the winners of its 19th annual Product of the Year awards.
Product of the Year winners were selected from hundreds of products, solutions and services reviewed in the InfoWorld Test Center during 1999. Analysts in the Test Center selected Product of the Year award winners based on how well they solved the most pressing business
problems of IT executives. These awards reflect the performance and integrity of products in the most real-world testing environment in the industry. With more than a $21 million investment, the InfoWorld Test Center can be configured to reflect a simple departmental
workgroup or complex, distributed wide-area network -- and everything in between.
The winners are:
Back-end services:
- Oracle Corp., Oracle 8i
Contact: Rheema Bhanasy; 650.506.3397
Business productivity software:
- Microsoft Corp., Office 2000
Contact: Amy Drew; 503.443.7000; amyd@wagged.com
Client hardware:
- Sony Electronics Inc., Vaio PCG-F190 laptop
Contact: Marie Domingo; 408.955.5142;
marie-domingo@mail.sel.sony.com
Development tools:
- IBM Corp., Visual Age for Java 3.0, Enterprise Edition
Contact: Stephanie Clark; 919.760.7230
E-commerce solutions:
- Trilogy Software, Inc., Buying Chain 2.0
Contact: Steve Myer; 512.794.5900
Mid-tier services:
- BEA Systems Inc., WebLogic 4.02
Contact: Angie Trah; 408.570.8354
Mobile computing:
- Research in Motion Ltd., BlackBerry
Contact: Sara Usilton; 617.587.2800; susilton@brodeur.com
Network hardware
- IBM Corp., RS/6000 Enterprise Server S80
Contact: Stacey Cooper; 908.889.6066
Network management:
- Network Associates Inc., Sniffer Pro Portable Analysis Suite 2.5
Contact: Robert Kusters; 408.346.5511; rkusters@nai.com
Operating systems:
- Red Hat Inc., Linux 6.1
Contact: Melissa London; 919.547.0012; melissa@redhat.com
Security:
- IBM Corp., eNetwork Firewall 3.3
Contact: Elise Porter; 919.854.0550, ext 245
Web-site solutions:
- Macromedia Inc., Generator 2
Contact: Susan Nicolls (snicolls@macromedia.com); 415.553.2751
"The InfoWorld Product of the Year award isn't based on technical specs, marketing glitz or a vendor's reputation. These awards are given to the products that performed best in a realworld setting under the watchful eye of experienced IT professionals," said Siobhan
Santinelli, Test Center Director. "This is a true test of a product's mettle in meeting customer requirements, and these vendors are to be commended for producing the best solutions to the most pressing problems of the IT executive."
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