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SD Announces Winners of 10th Annual Jolt Awards

Winners for the best software development products of 1999 have been announced by CMP's Software Development magazine at the 10th Annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards, co-sponsored by the Rochester, N.Y.-based Jolt Cola company.

Products are nominated and selected by a team of Software Development editors, writers, contributing editors and columnists. Winners in the six categories were announced at Software Development West Conference and Exposition, held March 22-24, at the San Jose Convention Center.

The Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards are given to products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the difficult task of creating corporate software faster, easier and more efficient. Jolt, "the most powerful cola," is the fabled soft drink used by software programmers to help get them through complex development projects.

The six categories of tools honored are: Languages and Development Environments; Design and Management Tools; Books and Computer-Based Training; Libraries, Frameworks and Components; Special/Other; and Utilities and Deployment Tools. One Jolt Award and three Productivity Awards (presented to the runners-up) are given for each category. Jolt Product Excellence award winners receive a coveted trophy: a can of Jolt Cola encased in Lucite.

For the 10th annual awards, 24 winners were selected from a record 361 nominees.

The winners, by category, are:

Languages and Development Environments:

Jolt Award: JBuilder from Inprise Corp.

Productivity Awards: Microsoft Office 2000 Developer from Microsoft;

VisualAge for Java Enterprise Edition from IBM; Python from python.org;

Design and Management Tools:

Jolt Award: Rational Suite from Rational Software

Productivity Awards: Together/Enterprise from TogetherSoft;

Rational Configuration Management (Tools): Clearcase, Clearcase Multisite and ClearQuest from Rational Software; Select Enterprise from Princeton Softech;

Books and Computer-Based Training:

Jolt Award: Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage Centered Design by Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood, published by Addison-Wesley

Productivity Awards: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck, published by Addison-Wesley; Software Requirements by Karl E. Wiegers, published by Microsoft Press; After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering by Steve M. McConnell, published by Microsoft Press.

Libraries, Frameworks and Components:

Jolt Award: Jini Technology Starter Kit from Sun Microsystems

Productivity Awards: ActiveReports from Data Dynamics, Ltd.; JClass Enterprise Suite from KL Group; VSFlexGrid Pro from VideoSoft.

Special/Other:

Jolt Award: Corel Linux from Corel Corp.

Productivity Awards: MSDN Universal Subscription from Microsoft Corp.; developerWorks from IBM; WebLogic Application Server from BEA Systems;

Utilities and Deployment Tools:

Jolt Award: jTest! from ParaSoft

Productivity Awards: Visual SlickEdit from MicroEdge, Inc.; InstallShield Professional 2000 from InstallShield Software Corp.

Hall of Fame Award:

The Jolt Hall of Fame Award is reserved for products and companies that have won numerous past awards or where the judges feel special recognition is due. This year's Hall of Fame award goes to software and book publisher O'Reilly and Associates for its support of the Open Source revolution. The open-source software movement is currently one of the most dynamic and "jolting" areas of software development, since it promotes the principle of posting source codethe nuts and bolts of most software programson the Internet, so that anyone can freely study, tinker with and improve it.

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