InfoWorld has published its Best of Open Source Software Awards for 2008.
Prominently featured are a few of my favorites:
- Best Wiki: MediaWiki - Wiki collaboration software of Wikipedia fame
- Best Blog Publishing: WordPress - Highly extensible blogging platform, and in no small conincidence, the software used to drive our own blog
- Best JavaScript Framework: Prototype - Makes JavaScript more object oriented. (But if you need to get the job done fast, consider jQuery.)
- Best Web Services Test Tool: soapUI - Specifically, the plugin for Open Source IDE Eclipse
- Best Server OS: CentOS Paraphrasing: "RedHat Linux, without the overhead of a RedHat support contract."
- Best Database: MySQL
- Best MySQL Administration: phpMyAdmin - This software is better than MySQL's own desktop clients for query and administration
- Best Web Browser: Firefox - Duh.
- Best Image Editing: GIMP - Funny name; nonetheless high quality photo editing
- Best Productivity Suite: OpenOffice.org - I'm struggling with this one, because the X11 port of this for the Mac SUCKS. I understand they're working on a native version for OSX... I'm trying to be patient.
And for our own future reference:
- Best Content Management System: Alfresco Community
- Best Enterprise Portal: Liferay Portal
- Best E-Commerce Manager: Magento's eCommerce
- Best Business Intelligence Suite: Pentaho Open BI Suite
- Best Customer Relationship Management Suite: SugarCRM
- Best Reporting Tool: JasperReports (We hate Crystal Reports.)
- Best Log File Analyzer: AWStats
- Best Server Monitoring: Naglos
- Best PDF Creator: PDFCreator
