CMP Technology Announces Winners of the 17th Annual
Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
Industry Leaders and Newcomers Recognized for
Innovation and Technological Excellence

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22 — The editors of Dr. Dobb's Journal announced the winners of the 17th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards during the Awards Ceremony at CMP Technology's Software Development West 2007 Conference and Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

"This year was an exceptionally exciting year for our judges, since there were so many strong contenders in every category," said Rosalyn Lum, conference and events manager for Dr. Dobb's Events. "The winners reflect that innovation is still alive: It was especially satisfying to see leaders still leading the way and at the same time, newcomers changing how developers work by giving them great new products that reflect the changing software development landscape."

Here is a complete list of the 17th Annual Jolt Award Winners:

1. Books General

Jolt Winner:

• Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn (Addison-Wesley Professional)

Productivity Winners:

• Catastrophe Disentanglement by E. M. Bennatan (Addison-Wesley Professional)
• Practices of an Agile Developer by V. Subramaniam and A. Hunt (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
• Software Estimation Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press)

2. Books Technical

Jolt Winner:

• Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design by B. McLaughlin, G. Pollice, and D. West (O'Reilly Media)

Productivity Winners:

• Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis (Addison-Wesley Professional)
• Refactoring Databases by Scott W. Ambler and P. J. Sadalage (Addison-Wesley Professional)
• CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland (O'Reilly Media)

3. Change and Configuration Management

Jolt Winner:

• AccuRev 4.5 with AccuWorkflow (AccuRev)

Productivity Winners:

• AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
• Perforce SCM (Perforce)
• Team Foundation Server (Microsoft)

4. Collaboration Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)

Productivity Winners:

• Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
• NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
• TeamCity (JetBrains)

5. Database Engines and Data Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)

Productivity Winners:

• Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
• Dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
• SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)

6. Design and Modeling Tools

Jolt Winner:

• stpBA Storyboarding (stpsoft)

Productivity Winners:

• Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio (Corticon)
• MagicDraw UML (No Magic)
• Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite (DataDirect Technologies)

7. Development Environments

Jolt Winner:

• NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)

 Productivity Winners:

• IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
• IronPython (Microsoft)
• Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research)

8. Enterprise Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Cape Clear ESB Platform (Cape Clear Software)

Productivity Winners:

• Liferay Portal (Liferay
• Appistry EAF (Appistry)
• Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pentaho)

9. Libraries, Frameworks and Components

Jolt Winner:

• NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)

Productivity Winners:

• JViews (ILOG)
• .NET Framework 3.0 (Microsoft)
• Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel)

10. Mobile Development Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Carbide .c++ Professional Edition (Nokia)

Productivity Winners:

• Crossfire (AppForge)
• NetBeans Mobility Pack and Sun Java Wireless Tookit (Sun Microsystems)
• Qtopia (Trolltech)

11. Project Management

Jolt Winner:

• Rally Enterprise (Rally Software)

Productivity Winners:

• 6th Sense Analytics (6th Sense Analytics)
• Teamwork (Open Lab)
• V1: Agile Enterprise (VersionOne)

12. Security

Jolt Winner:

• AppScan (Watchfire)

Productivity Winners:

• DevInspect (SPI Dynamics)
• Fortify Source Code Analysis (Fortify)
• Metasploit Framework (Metasploit)

13. Testing

Jolt Winner:

• AgitarOne (Agitar Software)

Productivity Winners:

• Mindreef SOAPscope (Mindreef)
• Parasoft SOAtest (Parasoft)
• TestComplete (AutomatedQA)

14. Bug and Defect Tracking

Jolt Winner:

• TestTrack Studio (Seapine Software)

Productivity Winners:

• JIRA (Atlassian Software Systems)
• OnTime 2007 (Axosoft)
• Software Planner Professional (Pragmatic Software)

15. Utilities

Jolt Winner:

• VMware Lab Manager (VMware)

Productivity Winners:

• Adobe Captivate 2 (Adobe)
• ElectricCommander (Electric Cloud)
• Textmate (MacroMates)

16. Web Development

Jolt Winner:

• Adobe Flex 2 (Adobe Systems)

Productivity Winners:

• IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
• Mindreef SOAPscope Server (Mindreef)
• NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 (Sun Microsystems)

17. Websites and Developer Networks

Jolt Winner:

• Sun Developer Network (Sun Microsystems)

Productivity Winners:

• CM Crossroads (CMC Media)
• Koders.com (Koders)
• Krugle (Krugle)

HALL OF FAME

• IBM developerWorks (IBM)

Complete Jolt Awards details are available at http://www.joltawards.com.

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