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5th Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards


5th Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

Books

Jolt Award: Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards (Van Nostrand Reinhold)

Productivity Award: Debugging the Development Process, by Steve Maguire (Microsoft Press)

Productivity Award: Design Patterns, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley)

Productivity Award: The Design and Evolution of C++, by Bjarne Stroustrup (Addison-Wesley)

Special

Jolt Award: OS/2 Warp (IBM)

Productivity Award: Linux (Linus Torvalds)

Productivity Award: Microsoft Developer Network (Microsoft)

Productivity Award: Windows NT Workstation (Microsoft)

Utilities

Jolt Award: Bounds-Checker for Windows NT (NuMega Technologies)

Productivity Award: Uninstaller (MicroHelp)

Productivity Award: SmartHeap (MicroQuill)

Productivity Award: MKS Toolkit (Mortice Kern Systems)

Design and Management Tools

Jolt Award: Visio (Shapeware)

Productivity Award: EasyCASE System Designer (Evergreen CASE Tools)

Productivity Award: SQA:TeamTest (Software Quality Automation)

Productivity Award: InfoPump (Trinzic)

Productivity Award: System Architect (Popkin Software and Systems)

Libraries

Jolt Award: XVT Power++ (XVT Software)

Productivity Award: Microsoft Foundation Classes (Microsoft)

Productivity Award: zApp Developer's Suite (Inmark Development)

Languages & Development Environments

Jolt Award: SQLWindows (Gupta)

Productivity Award: Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)

Productivity Award: Visual C++ (Microsoft)

Productivity Award: PARTS (Digitalk)


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