New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — IDG World Expo (the LinuxWorld show management) and the UniForum Association have announced the winners of awards recognizing achievements by the Open Source community at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, held this week in New York City.

• Best Developer Tools
  Borland: Kylix 2

• Best Embedded Linux Solutions
  MontaVista Software: MontaVista Hard Hat Linux 2.0

• Best Network/Server Application
  TurboLinux: Powercockpit

• Best Open Source Project
  Caldera International: Open WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management)

• Best Productivity Application
  Computer Associates: Unicenter AutoSys Job Management 4.0

• Best System Integration Solution
  Computer Associates: Unicenter Network & System Management

• Best of Show
  Computer Associates: Unicenter Network & System Management

On January 30th the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was awarded the IDG/Linus Torvalds Community Award, following the opening keynote presentation by Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company. The award recognizes EFF's exceptional commitment to Open Source, and contributes $25,000 to the Foundation to support its efforts.

Also at LinuxWorld this week, the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) presented its Enterprise Achievement Award to Andrew James Tridgell, an Australian software developer and the creator of Samba. The OSDL awarded the $25,000 cash prize to Tridgell in recognition of his work on Samba, the widely deployed SMB file and print server for Unix and Unix-like systems. Tim Witham, OSDL lab director, presented the award to Tridgell following the keynote presentation by IBM's William Zeitler on January 30th.

The next LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will take place at San Francisco's Moscone Center, August 12-15, 2002.

 
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