Best New Products Honored At FOSE 03/17/99
Newsbytes, Wednesday, March 17, 1999 at 12:18
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1999 MAR 17 (NB) -- By Staff, Govt
Computer News. Two products tied for Best of Show honors last night
when Government Computer News editorial director, Thomas R. Temin,
announced the winners of the Best New Product Awards at FOSE. The
lightweight Latitude LT M266ST notebook from Dell Computer Corp.
[NASDAQ:DELL] and the NetWare 5 network operating system from
Novell Inc. [NASDAQ:NOVL] both received Best of Show honors.
"We felt we had to make both a hardware and software award this year,"
said Temin, one of the 14 members of the product judging panel. "Judges
loved the Latitude LT for its extraordinary function in a mere three-pound
portable. And we honored NetWare 5 for its remarkable leap forward over
previous versions of the NOS (network operating system). After some
debate, we decided to give awards to both products."
Last night's award was Novell Inc.'s first in the four years since GCN
started honoring best new products at FOSE. Dell is a repeat winner,
although it never won in the portable category.
"The outstanding quality of contest entries this year made the job of
deciding the winners quite challenging," Temin said. "In several
categories, the scores were very tight."
NetWare 5 was the winner in the enterprise software category. The
Latitude LT took the top honors among eight finalists in the portable
computer category.
Eleven other products won Best New Product Awards at FOSE '99. |
