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Jolt Awards - 1996 Winners

In each of the six categories, we present one Jolt Award and three Productivity Awards. The categories are Books, Design and Management Tools, Libraries and Components, Languages and Development Environments, Utilities, and Special. The Jolt winner was selected as the product that most jolted the industry during the 1996 calendar year. The Productivity Award winners also deserve recognition for having a significant impact in software development. This year for the first time, we've established the Software Development Hall of Fame Award for software tools that have maintained the highest quality over the years, receiving Jolt or Productivity awards multiple times since their initial release.

Books

Rapid Development by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press)

Productivity Awards:

• Creating a Software Engineering Culture, by Karl Wiegers (Dorset House Publishing Co.)
• Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, by by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, and Michael Stal(Wiley Computer Publishing)
• The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide, by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards (Wiley Computer Publishing)

Design and Management Tools

Together/C++ Professional (Object International, Inc.)

Productivity Awards:

• CS/10,000 (Client/Server Connection)
• RequisitePro 2.0 (Requisite, Inc.)
• Genitor (Genitor Corp.)

Languages and Development Environments

Visual Café Pro (Symantec Corp.)

Productivity Awards:

• Visual SQL (Blue Sky Software Corp)
• Visual J++ (Microsoft Corp.)
• Optima++ Enterprise 1.5 (Powersoft)

Libraries and Components

Street (Pepperwhite Software)

Productivity Awards:

• Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server (Amzi! Inc.)
• Distinct Visual Internet Toolkit (Distinct Corp.)
• ObjectStore (Object Design)

Special

CORBAplus for C++ (Expersoft)

Productivity Awards:

• Dictate For Windows 2.5 (Dragon Systems Inc.)
• How To Build Better Object Models CD-ROM Workshop (Object International)
• SQL Anywhere Professional 5.5 (Sybase Inc)

Utilities

Partition Magic 3 (Powerquest)

Productivity Awards:

• Visual SlickEdit 2.0 (MicroEdge)
• MKS Toolkit (Mortice Kern Systems Inc.)
• SQA Suite (Rational Software Corp.)

1996 Hall of Fame Winner

BoundsChecker (NuMega)