InfoWorld's Bossies Recognize the Best Open Source Offerings

by Ostatic Staff - Aug. 04, 2008

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InfoWorld's annual Bossies awards recognize top free and open source software, and the second annual list of winners is out now. Unlike SourceForge's Community Choice Awards, where winners are determined by votes from the community, the Bossies are awarded by InfoWorld's editorial and test center staff. Familiar names like Firefox and GIMP made the list of winners, but so did many lesser-known products. Here are the winners:

db4o, Object Database

Git, Version Control

HttpClient, Web Client Library

Intel Threaded Building Blocks, Parallel Programming

JBoss Drools, Business Rule Management System

Open Flex, Rich Internet Applications

Prototype, JavaScript Framework

soapUI, Web Services Test Tool

Audacity, Sound Editing

Blender, 3D Modeling

Firefox, Web Browser

GIMP, Image Editing

OpenOffice.org, Productivity Suite

PDFCreator, PDF Creation

Alfresco Community, Content Management

Compiere, Enterprise Resource Planning

dotProject, Project Management

Hyperic HQ, Application Monitoring

Intalio BPMS, Business Process Management

JasperReports, Reporting

Liferay Portal, Enterprise Portal

Magento eCommerce, E-Commerce

Pentaho Open BI Suite, Business Intelligence

SugarCRM, Customer Relationship Management

Elgg, Social Networking

MediaWiki, Wiki

VNC and Chicken of the VNC, Remote Control

Scalix, Mail and Calendar

WordPress, Blog Publishing

Asterisk, IP Telephony

AWStats, Log File Analyzer

InSSIDer, Wireless Network Scanner

Nagios, Server Monitoring

NDISwrapper, Wireless Network Interface

Vyatta, Router, Firewall, & VPN

Wireshark, Network Protocol Analyzer

Zenoss Core, Network Monitoring

CentOS, Server Operating System

JBossESB, Enterprise Service Bus

MySQL, Database

phpMyAdmin, MySQL Administration

Puppy Linux, Small-Footprint OS

Talend Open Studio, Data Integration

Ubuntu, Desktop Operating System

VirtualBox, Desktop Virtualization

Xen, Server Virtualization

AppArmor, Application Security

Metasploit Framework, Penetration Toolkit

Ophcrack, Password Cracker

SmoothWall Express, Network Firewall

Snort with BASE, Network Intrusion Detection

Splunk, Security Log Analysis

TrueCrypt, Disk Encryption

Untangle Gateway Platform, Gateway Security