2006 Jolt Product Excellence Award Winners

The 2006 Jolt Product Excellence Award Winners have been announced, these are the winners

BOOKS GENERAL

Jolt Winner: Prefactoring by Ken Pugh (O'Reilly)

Productivity Winners:
• Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel (Morgan Kaufmann)
• Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Karl Fogel (O'Reilly)
• The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun (O'Reilly)

BOOKS TECHNICAL

Jolt Winner: Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt and Mike Clark (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

Productivity Winners:
• Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-Wesley)
• Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (Apress)
• Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging by Andreas Zeller (Morgan Kaufmann)

ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Jolt Winner: WelcomRisk 2.6 (Welcom)

Productivity Winners:
• Corticon Business Rules Management 4.0 (Corticon)
• JBoss 2 Portal (JBoss)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft)

DATABASE ENGINES AND DATA TOOLS

Jolt Winner: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft)

Productivity Winners:
• Berkeley DB 4.4 (Sleepycat Software)
• Google Maps API 2005 (Google)
• MySQL 5.0 (MySQL)

DEFECT TRACKING, CHANGE AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

Jolt Winner: Perforce SCM 2005 (Perforce)

Productivity Winners:
• FogBugz 4.0 (Fog Creek)
• Guiffy SureMerge 7.0 (Guiffy Software)
• JIRA 3.4 (Atlassian Software)

DESIGN TOOLS AND MODELING

Jolt Winner: Lattix LDM 2.0 (Lattix)

Productivity Winners:
• Borland Together 2006 for Eclipse (Borland)
• Enterprise Architect 6.0 (Sparx Systems)
• MindManager Pro 6.0 (Mindjet)

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

Jolt Winner: Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft)

Productivity Winners:
• Eclipse SDK 3.1 (Eclipse.org)
• IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 (JetBrains)
• Komodo 3.5 (ActiveState)

LIBRARIES, FRAMEWORKS AND COMPONENTS

Jolt Winner: .NET Framework 2.0 (Microsoft)

Productivity Winners:
• Dundas Chart for .NET 5.0 (Dundas Software)
• Qt 4.0 (Trolltech)
• Spring Framework 1.2.6 (SpringFramework.org)

MOBILE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Jolt Winner: Crossfire 5.6 (AppForge)

Productivity Winners:
• Carbide.c++ Express (Nokia)
• Flash Lite 2.0 (Adobe)
• NetBeans IDE 4.1 (Sun Microsystems)

QUALITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Jolt Winner: Rally 5.6 (Rally Software Development)

Productivity Winners:
• CollabNet Enterprise Edition with Project Dashboard/Task Management 2005 (CollabNet)
• QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.1 (Compuware)
• TargetProcess Suite 1.4 (TargetProcess)

SECURITY TOOLS

Jolt Winner: Elemental Compliance System 1.4 (Elemental)

Productivity Winners:
• CodeAssure 2.0 (Secure Software)
• DevPartner SecurityChecker 1.0 (Compuware)
• Fortify Security Tester 1.0 (Fortify)

TESTING TOOLS

Jolt Winner: VMTN Subscription 2005 (VMware)

Productivity Winners:
• Agitator 3.0 (Agitar Software)
• AQtime 4.7 (AutomatedQA)
• Clover 1.3 (Cenqua)

UTILITIES

Jolt Winner: Camtasia Studio 3.0 (TechSmith)

Productivity Winners:
• DevPartner Studio 8 (Compuware)
• Fog Creek Copilot 1.2 (Fog Creek Software)
• ReSharper 1.5 (JetBrains)

WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Jolt Winner: Rails 1.0 (rubyonrails.org)

Productivity Winners:
• JBoss Application Server 4x (JBoss)
• Macromedia Studio 8 2005 (Adobe)
• Zend Studio - Enterprise Edition 5.0 (Zend)

HALL OF FAME WINNER:

• Visual Studio Professional Edition (Microsoft)