Penghargaan Software Open Source Terbaik 2008

Hari ini InfoWorld mengumumkan software free dan open source terbaik di tahun 2008 yang tersedia untuk kalangan bisnis, profesional IT dan individual produktif.

Para pemenang tersebut terdiri dari 8 kategori, yaitu:

Collaboration (social networking, wiki, blogging, groupware)
- Elgg (social networking)
- MediaWiki (wiki)
- Scalix (media dan kalender)
- VNC (remote control)
- Wordpress (blog publishing)

Developer tools (RIA platform, Ajax framework, business rule management system, version control package, object database, Web service test tool, HTTP client library)
- db4o (object database)
- Git (version control)
- HttpClient (web client library)
- TBB (parallel programming)
- JBoss Drools (Business rule management system)
- Flex (Rich Internet applications)
- Prototype (JavaScript framework)
- soapUI (Web services test tool)

Enterprise applications (BPM, CRM, ERP, e-commerce, business intelligence, project management, application management, portal software)
- Alfresco Community (Content management)
- Compiere (enterprise resource planning)
- dotProject (project management)
- Hyperic hq (application monitoring)
- Intalio (Business process management)
- Liferay Portal (Enterprise portal)
- Magento's eCommerce (E-commerce)
- Pentaho (Business intelligence)
- SugarCRM (Customer relationship management)
- Jasper Reports (Reporting)

Networking (IP telephony, VoIP monitoring, log analysis, Wi-Fi scanning, server network monitoring, and routing software)
- Asterisk (IP Telephony)
- Awstats (log file analyzer)
- inSSider (Wi-Fi network scanner)
- Nagios (Server monitoring)
- NDISwrapper (Wireless network interface)
- Vyatta (Router, firewall, and VPN)
- WireShark (VoIP monitoring)
- Zenoss Core (Network monitoring)

Platforms and middleware (operating systems, desktop and server virtualization, database, application integration, data migration software)
- centOS (server operating system)
- JBossESB (Enterprise service bus)
- Mysql (database)
- phpMyadmin (MySQL administration)
- Puppy Linux (Small-footprint OS)
- Jitterbit (Data migration)
- Ubuntu 8.04 (Desktop operating system)
- VirtualBox (Desktop virtualization)
- Xen (Server virtualization)

Productivity apps (office suite, Web browser, image manipulator, sound editor, 3D modeling tool, PDF creator)
- Audacity (sound editing)
- Blender (3D modelling)
- Firefox (Web browser)
- Gimp (Image editing)
- OpenOffice.org (Productivity suite)
- PdfCreator (PDF creation)

Security (firewall, IPS, network gateway, password cracker, penetration toolkit, application security, disk encryption software)
- Metasploit (penetration toolkit)
- ophcrack (windows password cracker)
- Smoothwall Express (firewall)
- Snort (Network intrusion detection)
- Splunk (Security log analysis)
- Truecrypt (Disk encryption)
- Untangle (Gateway security)

Storage software (network and online backup, network attached storage, disk monitoring, storage administration)
- Amanda (network backup)
- FreeNAS (storage server)
- Free Online Backup (Online backup)
- WinMerge (File management)
- Smartmontools (disk monitoring)
- StorageIM (Storage administration)

Silahkan, dipilih! dipilih! ;-P