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Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the something-for-everyone dept.

The Alliance writes "InfoWorld has announced the 2007 Bossie Awards for the Best of Open-Source Software. Awards were given to 36 winners across 6 categories. Honorees include (among others) SpamAssassin, ClamAV and Nessus in security, Wireshark and Azureus Vuze in networking, and ZFS for storage. Interestingly, they split the operating system winners across two distributions, with CentOS winning for server OS and Ubuntu for desktop."

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  1. Nessus as open source by jmauro · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nessus is a funny one since it's no longer open source.

  2. Re:CentOS? by RealSurreal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Trademarks. You can use RH code under the GPL but they don't let you use their trademarks.

  3. Re:[Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]... by jmyers · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about CentOS, see the thread about CentOS vs RHEL. I mean CentOS is just a direct copy of the Red Hat product. If anything the award is just a dig at Red Hat which if not an advertiser is a potential advertiser.

  4. Re:CentOS? by Kelson · · Score: 3, Informative

    More like disappointing, given that it's RH/RPM based and it's a headache to maintain.

    Huh? What's so headachy about running "yum update" once in a while?

  5. Re:Criteria by compro01 · · Score: 2, Informative

    they give the one an award that has what "most people expect" and "a good pedigree"?

    well, in a business setting, a program that works damn-near-identically to the one you currently use is certainly a better idea than throwing something completely different out to the masses to learn. training costs and temporary loss of productivity are important things to consider.

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