(Montvale, NJ - January 20, 2004) - SYS-CON Media, the world's number one i-technology magazine publisher, announced today the winners of its first annual LinuxWorld Magazine (www.linuxworld.com) Readers' Choice Awards.
LinuxWorld Magazine is the leading magazine for enterprise and IT management, and today's announcement of the winners was made on the occasion of the opening day of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City. The awards recognize the best tools, solutions, and education offerings in 14 categories. Winners were selected through reader-submitted nominations, followed by online voting.
The Readers' Choice Awards program, coordinated annually by SYS-CON Media and often referred to as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," recognizes excellence in the solutions provided by the top Linux vendors in the market.
The list of companies in receipt of today's awards reads like a Who's Who of the most active and enterprising players in Linux-oriented software and hardware development and technical publishing. Award winners include 3R Soft, ActiveState, Apress, Arkeia Corporation, BMC Software, Codeflex, Computer Associates, CrossTec Corporation, Cyrusoft International, Debian, Etnus, The GNOME Foundation, HP, IBM, KDE.org, Komodo, Lone Star Software Corp., Mandrake Software, Mindbridge Software, Mozilla.org, Mutt, MySQL, NeTraverse, Oracle, Red Hat, The SCO Group, SGI, SiteScape, SlickEdit, SUSE Linux AG, Stalker Software, Sybase, VMware, Whizlabs Software, John Wiley & Sons, and Ximian.
"LinuxWorld Magazine applauds all today's 56 winners and finalists on their achievement in winning our Readers' Choice Award," said Kevin Bedell, editor-in-chief of LinuxWorld. "Our dedicated readers aren't just random passers-by, they all live on Linux Main Street and are personally and professionally involved in ushering in a new era of enterprise-level Linux. Their recognition is hard to win, and all the more valuable for being so."
"The purpose of our Readers' Choice Awards program is to raise awareness of and support for Linux within the business community and the public at large," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and CEO of SYS-CON Media. "LinuxWorld Magazine has grown as fast as the Linux industry itself, thanks to the energy and commitment of its editors and supporters - and as a function of the increasing readiness of Linux for business use."
The full results will appear in the February 2004 issue of LinuxWorld, which will be on newsstands worldwide on Tuesday, February 3, 2004.
Following is a list of companies and products that received awards:
Best Linux Book Winner Red Hat Linux 8 Bible John Wiley & Sons www.wiley.com
First Runner Up Official Red Hat Linux User's Guide John Wiley & Sons www.wiley.com
Second Runner Up Tuning and Customizing a Linux System Apress www.apress.com
Third Runner Up Linux in Small Business: A Practical User's Guide Apress www.apress.com
Best Linux Database Winner Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Sybase www.sybase.com
First Runner Up Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database Computer Associates www.ca.com
Second Runner Up MySQL Database Server MySQL www.mysql.com
About LinuxWorld Magazine LinuxWorld Magazine (www.LinuxWorld.com), is the leading print publication for IT managers and business leaders involved with assessing/making the business case for Linux. LinuxWorld Magazine serves IT decision-makers within the tens of thousand of US companies that are currently seeking to use their existing IT resources ever more efficiently and cost-effectively in order to stay competitive amid the sluggish global economy.
In a world where IT budgets are being slashed, the information and articles published in LinuxWorld Magazine show how IT departments are already achieving their goal of doing more for less by adopting Linux within enterprise environments - when measured in terms of real costs of ownership (software, hardware and staff training).
Each month SYS-CON Media reaches over half a million i-technology professionals through its specialty journals, magazines, books, conferences, and the SYS-CON interactive portal with its 87 Web sites at www.sys-con.com.
About SYS-CON Events, Inc. SYS-CON Events, Inc. (www.sys-con.com) is the world's leading producer of i-technology developer conferences and expositions. SYS-CON Events' upcoming 2004 conference and expo calendar includes: Edge 2004 East - Development Technologies Exchange, which will take place February 24 - 26, 2004 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.
Contact: Jeremy Geelan (editorial) Company: SYS-CON Media Voice: 201 802-3041 E-mail: jeremy@sys-con.com
Contact: Carmen Gonzalez (advertising) Company: SYS-CON Media Voice: 201 802-3021 E-mail: carmen@sys-con.com
Contact: Grisha Davida (Edge 2004 East Conference & Trade Show) Company: SYS-CON Events, Inc. Voice: 201 802-3004 E-mail: grisha@sys-con.com
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