“The Bazaar” was named the top influencer in this year's SD Times 100. The annual list recognizes companies, organizations — and for the first time, an entire community — that demonstrate technical and market leadership in software development. Embedded Linux-oriented organizations are well-represented on the list, which includes Enea, PalmSource, Wind River, Trolltech, Sleepycat, the Eclipse Foundation, SlickEdit, Bugzilla, IBM, Novell, and others.

Linux-oriented companies making the list include:

• Influencers
  • Eclipse Foundation, for “redefining competing tool chains” (story)
  • IBM DeveloperWorks, for embracing developers (story)
  • Novell, for buying SuSE and building enterprise stack (story)

• Deployment platforms
  • PalmSource, for not selling to MS, others
  • Novell, for adopting Linux as server platform
  • IBM, for WebSphere's market clout

• Database and data access
  • IBM, for releasing Cloudscape (story)
  • MySQL, for forcing closed-source vendors to adopt open source strategies
  • Sleepycat, for proving that small databases can master complex data

• Embedded & mobile
  • Enea, for combining embedded Linux with hard RTOS (story)
  • Green Hills, for its clever way to support Linux (story)
  • PalmSource, for its Linux strategy and acquisition of China MobileSoft (story)
  • Trolltech, for its cross-platform GUI toolkits (story)
  • Wind River, for throwing a monkey wrench into either/or RTOS debate, by embracing Linux (story)

• Collaboration & source code management
  • CollabNet, for its Subversion source code management system (story)

• Test & performance
  • Agitar, for its innovative approach to exercising code (story)
  • Bugzilla, for its ubiquitous bug-tracking tool

• Tools & environments
  • Eclipse, for its market buzz and third-party momentum (story)
  • SlickEdit, for demonstrating that agile development and code refactoring fit C++ (story)

A complete list of categories and winners is available here.

 
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