Government Computer News...FOSE 1999,Dell Latitude wins best of show,hardware.
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Dell, Novell share top honor for best new products at FOSE
Two products tied for Best of Show honors March 16 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. and the NetWare 5 network operating system from Novell Inc. 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 3-pound portable. And we honored NetWare 5 for its remarkable leap forward over previous versions of the NOS. 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.
Hewlett-Packard Co. took three awards, more than any other company: The HP 9100C Digital Sender won in the enterprise peripheral category. The ProCurve Switch 2424M took the honors in the communications product category. And the LaserJet 8100 Printer Series won the printer category. HP has won in a printer category every year and has received more awards at FOSE than any other company--nine in all.
IBM Corp. took the prizes for the two server categories: The Netfinity 5500 M-10 won in the workgroup and departmental servers category, and the Netfinity 7000 M-10 received honors in the enterprise server and system category.
Dell also earned top honors in the end-user computer category for its OptiPlex GXlp PIII, the second time an OptiPlex has won a FOSE best new product award. The GXlp's predecessor, the OptiPlex Gxpro 200, won in the desktop computer category in 1997.
Symantec Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., won its first-ever award at FOSE for Norton 2000 in the end-user software category.
The MX-2700 digital camera from Fuji Photo Film USA Inc. of Elmsford, N.Y., won in the end-user peripherals category. The company won in this category last year, too.
Silicon Graphics Inc. took the prize in the technical-user computer category for its 320 Visual Workstation.
Seagate Software Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif. won in the technical software category Crystal Reports 7.
Finally, GTE Government Systems Corp. of Needham Heights, Mass., took the honors in the workgroup and departmental software category for InfoWorkSpace.
For the awards program, 14 editors judged products in the 13 categories. Each product received ratings for innovation, usability, specifications and value. Judges only rated products in categories they are knowledgeable about. At least five editors reviewed product entries for each category, making their ratings without knowing other judges' scores |
