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Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @07:46AM 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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[Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]... by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2007-09-12 07:52 · 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.