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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. CentOS? by lgarner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Interesting that CentOS won for server OS. Shouldn't that go to RHEL?

    1. Re:CentOS? by the_womble · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I do not believe CentOS should be the server winner for the simple reason that RPM is not a very good package system in this century.
      What exactly is wrong with RPM per se? The disadvantages of rpm + urpmi against deb + apt are the lack of suggests recommends functionality, and that the GUIs are not as good as Synaptic.

      These are problems with the layer above (apt or urpmi) rather than the package format.

      I have no idea how yum, Smart or rpm + deb compares because I have not used them, but the latter would solve the problem with the GUI.

      ... Ubuntu won, with the added incentive that it's focus is on reliability, ease of maintenance and lower TCO.
      You mean:

      ... Ubuntu won, with the added incentive that it's focus is on brilliant PR.

      I really do not see what is so good about Ubuntu. I used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu for about an year. I loved installing software in Synaptic, but that was really all there was to like. I switched back to Mandriva which is much easier to configure.

  2. [Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]...


    In the [Dead Tree Magazine] world, you'll usually find that the number of [Award]s a product gets is related to the dollar value of ads that product places in that magazine. "Secure Computing" magazine is still today a classic example of this premise.
    1. Re:[Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2, Insightful

      does Ubuntu even have an advertising budget?


      I think that's a "yes".

      They do have a commercial entity that accepts and disburses cash:
      http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus

      Also, there've been billboards and such...
      http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6109379-7.html ...and don't forget the four-color printed commercial-quality cardboard boxes with ready-to-install Ubuntu disks - giveaways in an attractive package is a classic advertising gimmick.