Infoworld Bossie Awards are given to the best open source software in various categories. The first of these awards was announced in September 2007, and were given to 36 software applications across 6 categories. The software was adjudged by the Infoworld editors and reviewers.
Award | 2007 Winner | 2008 Winner | 2009 Winner | 2010 Winner |
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Enterprise Applications | ||||
Customer Relationship Management | SugarCRM | SugarCRM | SugarCRM | SugarCRM |
Enterprise Resource Planning | Openbravo ERP | Compiere | Compiere and Openbravo ERP |
Openbravo ERP |
Enterprise Portal | Liferay Portal | Liferay Portal | ||
Web Publishing and Document Management | Alfresco | Alfresco | Drupal | Alfresco, Drupal, and LogicalDOC |
Search Engine | Apache Solr | |||
Blog Publishing and Content Management | WordPress | WordPress | ||
Mail and Collaboration | Scalix | |||
IM Server | Jabber | |||
Streaming Media / Conferencing | Dimdim | |||
Project Management | dotProject | |||
Business Process Management | Intalio BPM | Intalio BPM | Intalio BPM | |
Business Intelligence | Pentaho BI Suite | Jaspersoft BI Suite and Pentaho BI Suite |
Pentaho BI Suite | |
e-Commerce | Magento | Magento | ||
Web Analytics | Piwik | |||
Networking | ||||
VoIP Telephony | Asterisk | Asterisk | Kamailo | |
Streaming Media | Azureus Vuze | |||
Directory Services | Open Directory | |||
System Administration and Configuration Management | Puppet | RANCID, Webmin, and Puppet | ||
System Cloning | FOG | |||
Network Protocol Analysis | Wireshark | Wireshark | ||
Wireless Sniffer / Scanner | Kismet | inSSIDer | ||
Log File Analyzer | AWStats | |||
Network Monitoring and Management | Zenoss Core | OpenNMS | OpenNMS | |
Network Access Control | PacketFence | |||
Application & System Monitoring | Hyperic HQ | Hyperic HQ | ||
Server Monitoring | Nagios | Nagios | ||
Monitoring and Graphing | Cacti | Cacti | ||
Wireless Network Interface | NDISwrapper | |||
IT Service Management | OTRS | |||
Security | Networking (cont.) | |||
Network Vulnerability Assessment | Nessus | |||
Intrusion Prevention/Detection | Snort | Snort | ||
Anti-virus | ClamAV | |||
Anti-spam | Spamassassin | |||
Network Firewall | IPCop | SmoothWall Express | IPCop | |
Application Firewall | SELinux | AppArmor | ||
Router, Firewall, and VPN | OpenVPN | Vyatta | Vyatta | Vyatta |
Security testing best practices | OSSTMM | |||
Penetration toolkit | Metasploit | |||
Password Utility | Ophcrack | KeePass | ||
Security Log File Analyzer | Splunk | |||
Disk encryption | TrueCrypt | |||
Gateway security | Untangle | Untangle | ||
Platforms & Middleware | ||||
Server OS | CentOS | CentOS | ||
Desktop OS | Ubuntu | Ubuntu | ||
Mobile OS | Android | |||
Small-footprint OS | Puppy Linux | |||
Hypervisor and Server Virtualization | Xen | Xen | Xen | |
Linux Virtualization with Containers | OpenVZ | OpenVZ | ||
Virtualization Platform Running on a Host OS | VirtualBox | VirtualBox | VirtualBox and KVM | |
Appliance Platform | TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library | |||
Web Application Server | JBoss Seam | |||
Web Server, Proxy, and Cache | Apache | nginx | nginx | |
Database, SQL | MySQL | MySQL | Infobright Community Edition (ICE) | |
Database, NoSQL | Cassandra | |||
Enterprise Service Bus | MuleSource | JBossESB | Mule ESB | |
Middleware and SOA Platform | WSO2 Carbon | WSO2 Carbon | ||
MySQL Administration | phpMyAdmin | |||
Data Integration | Talend Open Studio | Talend Open Studio, Talend Open Profiler, and Talend MDM | ||
Data Migration | Jitterbit Integration Server | Jitterbit Integration Server | ||
Software development | ||||
IDE and Software Platform | NetBeans | NetBeans | ||
Rich Internet Application Development | OpenLaszlo | Adobe Flex Builder | Ext JS and Ext GWT | |
AJAX Toolkit | Tibco General Interface | |||
Continuous Integration Server | CruiseControl | |||
Object Database | db4o | |||
Distributed Version Control and Source Management | Git | Git | ||
Web client library | HttpClient | WebKit | ||
Multi-core programming | Intel Threading Building Blocks | |||
Distributed applications and data | Hadoop and Hadoop Hive | Hadoop | ||
Business rule management system | JBoss Drools | Drools | ||
Cross-platform .NET Framework | Mono | |||
JavaScript Library | Prototype JavaScript Framework | jQuery | jQuery and Ext Core | |
Web Services and Applications Development | soapUI | Eclipse Web Services Tools | Zend Framework | |
Web Applications Development for Mobile Devices | jQTouch and Sencha Touch | |||
Cross-browser Tool | Browsershots | |||
Collaborative Data Library | OpenStreetMap | |||
Programming Language, general | Go and JRuby | |||
Programming Language, statistical computing and graphics | R | |||
Storage | ||||
File system | Zettabyte File System (ZFS) | |||
NAS Server | FreeNAS | FreeNAS | Openfiler | FreeNAS |
Storage Networking | AoE Tools | |||
Best block I/O tool | Iometer | |||
Best file I/O tool | IOzone | |||
Network backup | Amanda | |||
Online backup | Free Online Backup | |||
File management | WinMerge | |||
Disk monitoring | Smartmontools | |||
Storage administration | StorageIM | |||
Collaboration and Groupware | ||||
Social Networking | Elgg | |||
Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | ||
Mail and calendar | Scalix | |||
Remote Control | VNC | |||
Blog Publishing | WordPress | WordPress | ||
Productivity Apps | ||||
Sound Editing | Audacity | |||
3-D Modelling | Blender | |||
Web browser | Firefox | |||
Image Editing | GIMP | |||
Productivity Suite | OpenOffice.org | |||
PDF Creation | PDFCreator |