Infoworld Bossie Awards are given to the best open source software applications in various categories. First of these awards were announced in September 2007, and were given to 36 software applications across 6 categories. The software were adjudged by the Infoworld editors and reviewers.

Award	2007 Winner	2008 Winner
Enterprise Applications
Customer Relationship Management	SugarCRM	SugarCRM
Enterprise Resource Planning	Openbravo	Compiere
Enterprise Portal	Liferay Portal	Liferay Portal
Content Management	Alfresco	Alfresco
Mail and collaboration	Scalix
IM Server	Jabber
Project Management		dotProject
Application Monitoring		Hyperic HQ
Business Process Management		Intalio BPMS
e-Commerce		Magento
Business Intelligence		Pentaho Open BI Suite
Networking
VoIP Telephony	Asterisk	Asterisk
Streaming Media	Azureus Vuze
Directory Services	Open Directory
Network Protocol Analysis	Wireshark	Wireshark
Wireless Sniffer	Kismet
Log File Analyzer		AWStats
WiFi Network Scanner		inSSIDer
Server Monitoring		Nagios
Network Monitoring		Zenoss Core
Wireless Network Interface		NDISwrapper
Platforms & Middleware
Server OS	CentOS	CentOS
Desktop OS	Ubuntu	Ubuntu
Small-footprint OS		Puppy Linux
Web Application Server	JBoss Seam
Web Server	Apache
Database	MySQL	MySQL
Enterprise Service Bus	MuleSource	JBossESB
Server Virtualization	Xen	Xen
Desktop Virtualization		VirtualBox
MySQL Administration		phpMyAdmin
Data Migration		Jitterbit Integration Server
Security
Network Vulnerability Assessment	Nessus
Intrusion Prevention/Detection	Snort	Snort
Anti-virus	ClamAV
Anti-spam	Spamassassin
Network Firewall	IPCop	SmoothWall Express
Application Firewall	SELinux	AppArmor
VPN	OpenVPN	Vyatta
Security testing best practices	OSSTMM
Penetration toolkit		Metasploit
Windows password cracker		Ophcrack
Security Log File Analyzer		Splunk
Disk encryption		TrueCrypt
Gateway security		Untangle
Software development
IDE	NetBeans
Rich Internet Application Development	OpenLaszlo	Adobe Flex Builder
AJAX Toolkit	Tibco General Interface
Continuous Integration Server	CruiseControl
Object Database		db4o
Version Control		Git
Web client library		HttpClient
Parallel programming		Intel Threading Building Blocks
Business rule management system		JBoss Drools
JavaScript framework		Prototype JavaScript Framework
Web services testing tool		soapUI
Storage
File system	Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
NAS Server	FreeNAS	FreeNAS
Storage Networking	AoE Tools
Best block I/O tool	Iometer
Best file I/O tool	IOzone
Network backup		Amanda
Online backup		Free Online Backup
File management		WinMerge
Disk monitoring		Smartmontools
Storage administration		StorageIM
Collaboration (new for 2008)
Social Networking		Elgg
Wiki		MediaWiki
Mail and calendar		Scalix
Remote Control		VNC
Blog publishing		WordPress
Productivity Apps
Sound Editing		Audacity
3-D Modelling		Blender
Web browser		Firefox
Image Editing		GIMP
Productivity Suite		OpenOffice.org
PDF Creation		PDFCreator

[edit] References

• 2007 Infoworld Bossie Awards
• Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008