Infoworld Bossie Awards

Infoworld Bossie Awards are given to the best open source software applications in various categories. First of these awards were announced in September 2007, and were given to 36 software applications across 6 categories. The software were adjudged by the Infoworld editors and reviewers.

2007 Awards

Applications

* Customer Relationship Management - SugarCRM
* Enterprise Resource Planning - Openbravo
* Enterprise portal - Liferay Portal
* Content Management - Alfresco
* Mail and collaboration - Scalix

Networking

* VOIP Telephony - Asterisk
* Streaming Media - Azureus Vuze
* Directory Services - Open Directory
* Network Protocol Analysis - Wireshark
* Wireless Sniffer - Kismet

Platforms & Middleware

* Server OS - CentOS
* Desktop OS - Ubuntu
* Java Application Server - JBoss Seam
* Web Server - Apache
* Database - MySQL
* Enterprise Service Bus - MuleSource
* Server Virtualization - Xen

ecurity

* Network Vulnerability Assessment - Nessus
* Intrusion Prevention - Snort
* Anti-virus - ClamAV
* Anti-spam - Spamassassin
* Network Firewall - IPCop
* Application Firewall - SELinux
* VPN - OpenVPN
* Security testing best practices - OSSTMM

oftware development

* IDE - NetBeans
* Rich Internet Application Development - OpenLaszlo
* AJAX Toolkit - Tibco General Interface
* Continuous Integration Server - CruiseControl

torage

* File system - Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
* NAS Server - FreeNAS
* Storage Networking - AoE Tools
* Best block I/O tool - Iometer
* Best file I/O tool - IOZone

References

* [http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=91650 2007 Infoworld Bossie Awards]