Penton’s Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com Name “Best of Tech·Ed” Winners

June 8, 2007; 02:53 AM
Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro^®, SQL Server Magazine^® and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com, have announced the winners for the “Best of Tech·Ed Awards 2007” awards competition. The judges reviewed over 260 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 45 finalists to be interviewed at Tech·Ed in Orlando, FL. Winners of the “Best of Tech·Ed 2007” will be featured in the “Best of” August issue of Windows IT Pro.

The 15 “Best of Tech·Ed” category winners and two special recognition award winners are:

• Architecture – Appistry’s Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric
• Business Applications – Nintex’ SmartLibrary
• Business Intelligence – SoftArtisans’ OfficeWriter
• Connected Systems – Neudesic’s Legacy Modernization with BizTalk Server 2006 and Host Integration Server 2006
• Database Development and Administration – Symantec’s Symantec i3 for SQL Server
• Developer Tools and Technologies – Altova’s Altova XML Spy
• Management – Microsoft’s System Center Essentials 2007
• Mobility – Zenprise’s Zenprise for Blackberry
• Office System – KnowledgeLake’s KnowledgeLake Capture
• Security – Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006
• Sharepoint – Quest Software’s Quest Site Administrator for Sharepoint
• Unified Communication – Gold Systems’ Gold Systems Password Reset
• Web Development - Strangeloop Networks’ Strangeloop AppScaler for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX
• Windows Clients – Microsoft’s Microsoft Windows PowerShell
• Windows Server Infrastructure – InovaWave’s DXtreme for Windows
• Notable Product – Idokorro’s Idokorro Mobile Administration
• Most Innovative—Rapidmind’s Developer Platform

For more information, contact Amy Reitz, Marketing Communications Manager, Windows IT Media at 1-(970) 203-2954 or [email protected].

Penton Media’s Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Media also includes SQL Server Magazine and MSD2D. The Windows IT Media network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Media is the world’s leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT professionals. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com/pressroom.

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