Both Industry Leaders and Newcomers Are Recognized for Innovation and Technological Excellence SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Wednesday, March 15, the editors of Dr. Dobb's Journal announced the winners of the 16th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. The announcement was made at The Jolt Awards ceremony, held at the SD West 2006 Conference & Exposition at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards are presented annually to products and books that have "jolted" the industry by helping to create faster, easier and more efficient software. "This has been an exciting year for the Jolts," says Rosalyn Lum, technical editor for Dr. Dobb's Journal. "Not only did we see an unprecedented number of nominations in categories representing every phase of the software development cycle, we also found an exploding richness of features bundled in today's products adding to the complexity to today's software development tools and to the judging process. And, there were an equal number of new stars that have quickly moved to address the needs that this very complexity in the development environment has created. The winners reflect that innovation is alive and well in both large established companies as well as new bright and upcoming companies." Below is a complete list of the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Award winners: 1. Books General Jolt Winner: -- Prefactoring by Ken Pugh (O'Reilly) Productivity Winners: -- Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel (Morgan Kaufmann) -- Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Karl Fogel (O'Reilly) -- The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun (O'Reilly) 2. Books Technical Jolt Winner: -- Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt and Mike Clark (Pragmatic Bookshelf) Productivity Winners: -- Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-Wesley) -- Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (Apress) -- Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging by Andreas Zeller (Morgan Kaufmann) 3. Enterprise Project Management Jolt Winner: -- WelcomRisk 2.6 (Welcom) Productivity Winners: -- Corticon Business Rules Management 4.0 (Corticon) -- JBoss 2 Portal (JBoss) -- Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft) 4. Database Engines and Data Tools Jolt Winner: -- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft) Productivity Winners: -- Berkeley DB 4.4 (Sleepycat Software) -- Google Maps API 2005 (Google) -- MySQL 5.0 (MySQL) 5. Defect Tracking, Change and Configuration Management Jolt Winner: -- Perforce SCM 2005 (Perforce) Productivity Winners: -- FogBugz 4.0 (Fog Creek) -- Guiffy SureMerge 7.0 (Guiffy Software) -- JIRA 3.4 (Atlassian Software) 6. Design Tools and Modeling Jolt Winner: -- Lattix LDM 2.0 (Lattix) Productivity Winners: -- Borland Together 2006 for Eclipse (Borland) -- Enterprise Architect 6.0 (Sparx Systems) -- MindManager Pro 6.0 (Mindjet) 7. Development Environments Jolt Winner: -- Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft) Productivity Winners: -- Eclipse SDK 3.1 (Eclipse.org) -- IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 (JetBrains) -- Komodo 3.5 (ActiveState) 8. Libraries, Frameworks and Components Jolt Winner: --.NET Framework 2.0 (Microsoft) Productivity Winners: -- Dundas Chart for .NET 5.0 (Dundas Software) -- Qt 4.0 (Trolltech) -- Spring Framework 1.2.6 (SpringFramework.org) 9. Mobile Development Tools Jolt Winner: -- Crossfire 5.6 (AppForge) Productivity Winners: -- Carbide.c++ Express (Nokia) -- Flash Lite 2.0 (Adobe) -- NetBeans IDE 4.1 (Sun Microsystems) 10. Quality Project Management Jolt Winner: -- Rally 5.6 (Rally Software Development) Productivity Winners: -- CollabNet Enterprise Edition with Project Dashboard/Task Management 2005 (CollabNet) -- QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.1 (Compuware) -- TargetProcess Suite 1.4 (TargetProcess) 11. Security Tools Jolt Winner: -- Elemental Compliance System 1.4 (Elemental) Productivity Winners: -- CodeAssure 2.0 (Secure Software) -- DevPartner SecurityChecker 1.0 (Compuware) -- Fortify Security Tester 1.0 (Fortify) 12. Testing Tools Jolt Winner: -- VMTN Subscription 2005 (VMware) Productivity Winners: -- Agitator 3.0 (Agitar Software) -- AQtime 4.7 (AutomatedQA) -- Clover 1.3 (Cenqua) 13. Utilities Jolt Winner: -- Camtasia Studio 3.0 (TechSmith) Productivity Winners: -- DevPartner Studio 8 (Compuware) -- Fog Creek Copilot 1.2 (Fog Creek Software) -- ReSharper 1.5 (JetBrains) 14. Web Development Tools Jolt Winner: -- Rails 1.0 (rubyonrails.org) Productivity Winners: -- JBoss Application Server 4x (JBoss) -- Macromedia Studio 8 2005 (Adobe) -- Zend Studio -- Enterprise Edition 5.0 (Zend) Hall of Fame Winner: Visual Studio Professional Edition (Microsoft) For additional information about SD West 2006 and the Jolt Awards, log on to http://www.sdexpo.com/. 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