Jolt Awards Nominations: Nominations are open!
Dr. Dobb’s Journal invites all vendors to participate in the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards, aimed at recognizing innovative products, books and web sites that have “jolted” the software development industry in 2007. Nominations for the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards are now open. The deadline for nominations is December 3, 2007.
The more participants we have the more fun the award will be by jc_iverson’s
Software development has grown from an elite set of tools that everyone knew about and used, to today’s prolific industry awash with hundreds of products that morph and evolve with such swiftness and complexity that it is virtually impossible for developers to keep up with the changing market. Which products should they continue to use? Which upgrades and new versions are worthwhile? Which new tools’ performance and usability far outstrip their competitors? What is the new killer app? Enter the Jolt Product Excellence Awards: We recognize the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products. Jolt-award winners are the software products, books and websites that developers should be using today.
I have been introduced by Seth Grimes and now I am a Jolt Awards judge. Seth is doing it for the second year, and may be is not by casualty that Pentaho was the winner in the Enterprise Tools category.
There are many categories, and while the regular cost for each nomination is 300 USD, Open Source and no profit companies can pay 40 USD, but products supported and funded by a non-open source parent company are not eligible for the reduced entry fee.
Among Jolt Award judges quite a few are also fellow bloggers, like Jeff Atwood, Chris Minnick, Larry O’Brien, Peter Westerman and MichaelYuan.
Roberto Galoppini and 
Seth Grimes 6:56 pm on October 22, 2007 Permalink
Roberto, I did suggest to Pentaho that they enter the 2007 Jolt competition. I made the same suggestion to a number of other companies that did not win an award and to one other Productivity Award winner. As I explain in the blog entry you link to (thanks!), I’d like to see even more analytics and enterprise-applications vendors enter.
It’s worth mentioning that the Jolt judges have discussed criteria for assessing potential conflicts of interest and have created a recusal policy for cases where conflicts exist.
Roberto Galoppini 6:58 am on October 23, 2007 Permalink
Ciao Seth,
I am sorry if you felt like me pointing the finger to you, I just thought you took some role, as it happened to be actually.
Unfortunately I am used to Italian corruptions stories, but believe me I never wanted to mention you were pushing them. On the contrary I believe you were right pulling Open Source Firms to join the contest, and I am willing to do just the same.