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Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software
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on Wed Sep 12, 2007 02:46 PM
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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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CentOS? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:CentOS? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @05:30PM)
Huh? What's so headachy about running "yum update" once in a while?
Re:CentOS? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:CentOS? (Score:4, Informative)
Open source awards give awards to Open Source... (Score:1, Interesting)
(http://www.beanleafpress.com/)
[Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Nessus as open source (Score:5, Informative)
(http://jmauro.freeshell.org/)
interesting split of winners (Score:2)
And SuSE was awarded best Linux Desktop? (Score:3, Interesting)
Best Client Operating System Award:
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/09/114-best_of_open_so-3.html [infoworld.com]
Best Linux Desktop Award:
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/01/29-2007_technology-7.html [infoworld.com]
Wireshark and Azureus Vuze? (Score:1)
Wireshark, however, is a very nice application and I have used it countless times to troubleshoot network issues and it even as a visual aid to help people understand basic networking.
Not sure how they are even close to comparable.
Kidding aside, an application whose function is to implement a simple file transfer protocol should not be 50 megs, especially when you open it and wonder where the file transfer interface is.
Left out in the cold.... for now. (Score:1)
Check out the article: http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/07/09/10/37FE-boss-enterprise-monitoring_1.html [infoworld.com]
Full disclosure: I work for one of the, um, finalists/threats mentioned in the article. Hyperic http://www.hyperic.com/ [hyperic.com]. That said, I know they are doing a review of our product. I guess they will announce it later... another way for the BOSSIEs to just keep on keepin on...
Java everywhere? (Score:1)
CentOS vs Ubuntu (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday October 09 2006, @07:35PM)
Result? I got to about the 15th self-compiled RPM and decided that maintaining the damn thing such that all these apps were patched would be a distributor's job, and I'd never keep up. The security concerns that I raised here forced me to move to Ubuntu, where everything just worked.
Interestingly, all I was doing was rpm-rebuild on Fedora RPMs.
Re:Trisexuals (Score:1, Troll)
(Last Journal: Wednesday September 22 2004, @11:13AM)
Re:This is all well and good (Score:2)
Re:Criteria (Score:3, Informative)
well, in a business setting, a program that works damn-near-identically to the one you currently use is certainly a better idea than throwing something completely different out to the masses to learn. training costs and temporary loss of productivity are important things to consider.
Re:They must be kidding on the securty list (Score:1)