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Jolt Awards - 1998 Winners

In each of the six categories, we present one Jolt Award and three Productivity Awards. The categories are Books and Computer_Based Training, Design and Management Tools, Libraries, Frameworks and Components, Languages and Development Environments, Utilities and Deployment Tools, and Special. The Jolt winner was selected as the product that most jolted the industry during the 1998 calendar year. The Productivity Award winners also deserve recognition for having a significant impact in software development. Also presented was the Software Development Hall of Fame Award, a crystal ice bucket filled with Jolt Cola.

For more information on the processes of nominating and selecting the Jolt Awards, visit our Jolt Awards general information page.

Books and Computer-Based Training

Component Software—Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, by Clemens Szyperski (Addison-Wesley)

Productivity Awards:

• Anti-Patterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis, by William J. Brown, Raphael C. Malveau, Hays W. McCormick, and Thomas Mowbray (John Wiley & Sons)
• Software Architecture in Practice, by Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Ken Bass and Len Bass (Addison Wesley Longman)
• Thinking in Java, by Bruce Eckel (Prentice Hall)

Design and Management Tools

Together/J (Object International)

Productivity Awards:

• Caliber-RM (Technology Builders)
• ESTIMATE Professional (Software Productivity Centre)
• Rational Rose (Rational Software)

Languages and Development Environments

Java 2 (JDK 1.2) (Sun Microsystems)

Productivity Awards:

• JBuilder (InPrise Corp.)
• Visual Cafe (Symantec)
• VisualAge for Java (IBM)

Libraries, Frameworks and Components

Voyager Core Technology (ObjectSpace)

Productivity Awards:

• MapX (MapInfo Software)
• Objective Toolkit Pro (Rogue Wave/ Stingray)
• Sax Basic Engine (Sax Software)

Special

Red Hat Linux (Red Hat Software)

Productivity Awards:

• Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile (Dragon Systems, Inc.)
• Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) (Microsoft Corp.)
• Sun Developer Essentials (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)

Utilities and Deployment Tools

DevPartner Studio (Compuware Numega)

AND

Apache Web Server (The Apache Group)

Productivity Awards:

• Homesite (Allaire Corp.)
• InstallShield Professional (InstallShield Software)
• Communicator/Mozilla Open Source Code (Netscape Communications)

1998 Hall of Fame Winner

Visio (Visio Corp.)