Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awards
July 10th, 2003 by Rebecca Cassity in
Linux Journal's Editors' Choice Awards are well-known as the premiere forum recognizing outstanding product developments and achievements in the Linux market. A panel of distinguished Linux experts was assembled to nominate products for the awards. Linux Journal editors chose the final winners from amongst these nominations.
The winners, featured in the August 2003 issue of Linux Journal, are as follows:
Best Server Appliance (hardware): Sputnik AP 120
Best Security Tool (hardware or software): Netfilter/iptables
Best Server: Newisys 2100
Best Workstation: Dell Precision 650n
Best Web Browser or Client: Mozilla 1.4
Best Graphics Software: Jahshaka
Best Communication Tool: Gaim
Best Desktop Software: OpenOffice.org
Best Development Tool: Perl 5.8.0
Best Database: PostgreSQL
Best Management or Administration Software: Webmin
Best Mobile Device: Lindows Mobile PC
Best Game: Frozen Bubble
Best Web Site: Linux Weekly News
Product of the Year: SGI Altix 3000
For more information on the 2003 Linux Journal Editors' Choice Awards please visit http://www.linuxjournal.com/edchoice/ or contact Linux Journal's editorial team at awards@ssc.com.
About Linux JournalLinux Journal is the premier Linux magazine, dedicated to serving the Linux community and promoting the use of Linux world-wide. A monthly periodical, Linux Journal is currently celebrating its ninth year of publication. Linux Journal may be purchased at all major bookstores and newsstands and may also be ordered by calling 1-888-66-LINUX, sending e-mail to subs@ssc.com or visiting http://www.linuxjournal.com/. For additional information about Linux Journal send e-mail to linux@ssc.com.
About the PublisherSSC Publications is an established leader in the Linux, Open Source and UNIX fields, publishing best-selling books, reference cards and e-zines in these fields since 1983. SSC is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has been operating since 1968. Visit SSC on the web at http://www.ssc.com/.
Editors' Choice Awards Contact:
Heather Mead, Senior EditorSpecialized Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSC)P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA, 98155Phone: +1 206-782-9011 / Fax: +1 206-782-7191awards@ssc.com
Media Relations Contact:
Rebecca Cassity, Marketing ManagerSpecialized Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSC)P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA, 98155Phone: +1 206-297-8653 / Fax: +1 206-782-7191rebecca@ssc.com
Rebecca Cassity is the GM of Linux Journal
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why i run linux at home
On December 30th, 2006 Anonymous (not verified) says:
because ms treats people like crap. i work there
and i am moving on to someplace where productivity
matters. god bless the people who can put up with
the crap there.
Tendency....
On September 6th, 2005 Andy Master (not verified) says:
I think there is so much bias in all these rankings, that anyone more or less related may argue. However, looking back, I can say definitely - iptables - are the Best! ;-)
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 30th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Uh, guys, I think from all your bickering and total lack of product knowledge, that it's obvious the Linux world doesn't have a clue what's going on in it's own back yard.
That is why SQLServer has been and always will be the world's greatest database server for whatever your application.
Microsoft rules because you're all a bunch of keystone cops.
DB
On March 11th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Ever heard of DB2 on an AS400?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On September 18th, 2003 Anonymous says:
A very large financial institution uses IMS, a very old, very fast, and very reliable hierarchical database.
At peak hours they do ... wait for it ....
6 million transactions. That's per hour.
IMS on z/OS is THE FASTEST DB around. Even faster than DB2. Ask any large bank, manufacturer or insurance company and they'll concur.
Come back when SQL Server is written well enough to let Taiwan stay on the Internet during a Slammer attack and I'll let you lick the sweat off of my balls. Until then STFU.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On August 1st, 2003 Anonymous says:
Hai,
microsoft advocate , you comment and your presence are not welcome here, please leave and dress up you own Windows Costume !!!
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On August 21st, 2003 Anonymous says:
Why shouldn't s/he be welcome here? If s/he has anything reasonable and worthwhile to say, the open-source community should be willing to listen. If not, then what is said will collapse of its own weight.
Why do you guys want to censor the opposition? Afraid s/he might be right about something?
Re: The above is BULL...
On September 30th, 2003 Anonymous says:
..."created in 1995, enchanced and updated in 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003...."
Can't say the same about the site, uhhh, blink tags
Re: The above is BULL...
On July 27th, 2003 Anonymous says:
*cough* it'd be a LOT more impressive and would likely get a LOT more attention from the media if the linuxcad website didn't look like something put together by your cousin's sister's friend Ernie.
How about shredding that pile of poodle feces, and creating a website that looks as professional as the product you're trying to sell?
By way of example, I present the comparison between Debian's website, and Red Hat's website. Debian looks like a hobbyist distro. Red Hat looks like a professional distro (irregardless of the physical differences between the OS's, the way they are presented in their web-advertising is the difference -- the perception of the customer who has used neither.)
Re: The above is BULL...
On July 30th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Dude, it's either REGARDLESS or IRREGARD.
There is no such thing as irregardless. Before you start criticizing websites, try graduating middle school first.
Re: The above is BULL...
On August 21st, 2003 Anonymous says:
actually, there is no "IRREGARD." "REGARDLESS" means "without regard".
Now, doesn't that clear things up? :)
Re: The above is BULL...
On July 29th, 2003 Anonymous says:
wow, that site does suck...
All your CAD
On July 25th, 2003 Anonymous says:
are belong to us.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
How about disclosing the top three Linux Journal Winner for each and every category of the Editors choice contested to make it more transparent and interesting ?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
How about award for best programming/Computing language , certainly it must be platform independent unlike microsoft window only product.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On October 31st, 2003 Anonymous says:
Well, no language that I would like would win, but Lisp or ML all the way!!! (maybe Haskell too ;)
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 16th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Well it seems we have shortlisted a few for this category
in no particular order , we got
Java
Phython
Any more suggestion, keep on nominating please!
Thanks
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 16th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Erlang !
Erlang is a concurrency oriented programming language. It has been created as a means to write robust applications, running on a set of networked computers.
see http://www.erlang.org/ and http://www.erlang-projects.org/
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 21st, 2003 Anonymous says:
I know most open sourcees hate Microsoft, but I think their CLR initiative promises to provide an amazing world of integrating all languages on any platform. The best language for any programmer is the one they understand and are most fluent in. So instead of focusing on which language it preferred by this programmer or that programmer, we should look for a framework that allows all languages to accomplish tasks together.
Microsoft has labelled their implementation of this CLR as .Net, but the specifications have been sumbitted to ECMA and W3C international standard organizations and Ximian is developing their own version called Mono. Programmers that want a really valuable tool for their development should support the Ximian project.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 16th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Python:
- Multiplatform
- Easy to learn
- Very powerful
- Extensible
- Stable
- Secure
- Chose of Procedural or Object Oriented coding approach, depending on preference.
- Code is forced to be clean and readable by anyone, not just the guy who wrote it.
- Batteries included
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 16th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Perl already won the best development award... too late for Python this year (or java for that matter).
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
There is no need for a contest.
JAVA RULE!!!!!
k=n^r/ck, scjp, scjd
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On October 31st, 2003 Anonymous says:
Java: the COBOL of the new mellenium.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 18th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Java??? Come on!
I used Java, Perl, Python, PHP and other popular languages for real-world programming -- over a dozen all together. I am using these three more frequently than others in the past three years because they are winers, when combined:
1. C -- For performance -- you need it!!!
2. Ruby -- I use this to replace Perl, Python, Tcl -- for quick and dirty development and for integration
3. Scheme/Guile -- for its elegance and to make me a better programmer
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Is Java is the de facto commanding language ?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
It should be corrected as
Well, may I suggest postgresql community to request eWeek( if achievable) to perform bench mark testing on postgresql and stop all the "Postgresql critics" as "Mysql" seems to gain publicity from the test result!!
My Apology
gan
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Well, it seems like a good idea , would postgresql community pay attention to this benchmark testing with currrent 7.3.3 or they would rather wait until the much anticipated 7.4 version is ready ?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 18th, 2003 Anonymous says:
I only hope they benchmark more than just speed - PG is about being an RDBMS not about being a bloody souped up content delivery system... would be funny to put some data integrity bits in you test as well, and maybe uptime and reliability under heavy load... I can see it now..
MySQL-> TIMMMMMMMMBBBBBEERRRRRRRR.......CRASH!
PG->hmmm gotta work a bit harder here... oh well..
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
"Database Server Clash Revisited
By Timothy Dyck
eWEEK and sister publication PC Magazine early last year published results of a comparative performance test of database servers. It had been almost a decade since either publication had performed a similar test, so we expected significant interest in the story."
Well, may I suggest postgresql community to request eWeek( if achievable) to perform bench mark testing on postgresql and stop all the MySql critics as they seems to gain publicity from the test result!!
gan
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 13th, 2003 Anonymous says:
what a idiot comment....
:)
but the database postgres is not a dbms... its a rdbms
the best dbms would be MySQL
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On September 30th, 2003 Anonymous says:
grrr.. an rdbms is essentially a dbms
say "an rdbms" not "a rdbms"
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On September 11th, 2004 Anonymous says:
There's a lot more heat than light here. To say that an "rdbms is essentially a dbms" is logically correct but not necessarily helpful. Man is essentially an animal, but fish will never understand SQL.
'r' is for 'relational,' and whether you say an or a rdbms is a free choice of usage. It is possible to be relational without complying with the SQL standard, but it would be an odd design decision now. The essence of being relational is that the unit of organisation of data is the 'relation,' i.e. a set of 'tuples,' which is realised physically as tables, and may be presented as views. See E.F. Codd, C.J. Date or any works by the great pioneers done before most of today's practitioners were born, is seems. By this definition, PostgreSQL and MySQL come from utterly relational roots, although PostgreSQL has moved along a curve like Oracle to answer the desires of object-oriented thinking.
Codd, E.F. A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. CACM 13(6): 377-387. 1970.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
OK you want to get technical....Let's get Technical....
Postgresql is a ORDBMS.
MySQL is a RDBMS.
k=n^r/ck, SCJP,SCJD
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 16th, 2003 Anonymous says:
mysql, in its standard configuration, is not an rdbms, since it doesn't adhere to the relational model or offer any relational integrity.
even when attempting to be an rdbms, i think its a little suspect, see:
http://www.pgro.uk7.net/innodb1.htm
there are countless other examples where it falls down on data integrity as well....
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
OK you want to get technical....Let's get Technical....
Postgresql is a ORDBMS.
Postgresql: Introduction and Concepts
By Bruce Momjian Pg 1.
MySQL is a RDBMS.
MySQL.com: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Introduction.html#What-is
k=n^r/ck, SCJP,SCJD
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 15th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Hello,
could you please take a look at the following Postgresql web site http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/features.html before giving useless comment ?
Postgresql is not only world's most advanced open source database management system but it also has the commercial grade object oriented and features one would expect . Don't
argue whether it is RDBMS or DBMS , try first and evaluate for yourself
No one heard about sapdb ?
On July 23rd, 2003 Anonymous says:
It seems noone have a look at Sapdb (http://www.sapdb.org/)
I think sapdb is more complete and advenced than Postgresql, but
it's more complex to run and configure.
I still waiting for a sapdb Debian package, I've tried binary
distros from ftp.sap.com, I find those packages very crufty:
everytime i start a db sapdb kernel die. web interface die after first requested page. Actually I can't say that sapdb rock, but reading documentation make me think that it's better than postgresql
Re: No one heard about sapdb ?
On July 25th, 2003 Anonymous says:
So, with no benchmarks or actual experience, just based on the documentation, you'd pick SAPDB as being better than Postgresql?
Sorry, but that's a little silly. If you can't even get it to run, how can it possible be better?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 14th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Thanks Linux Journal for recognizing PostgreSQL! It's truly the very best.
MySQL? Let's wait several more years and then evaluate it. I don't know what people talk about when they say MySQL is better. I confess MySQL does have better advertisement. In the end, the best product wins.
PostgreSQL rules.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 14th, 2003 Anonymous says:
what was that about idiot comments ?
"it's not a dbms, it's a rdbms" ???
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 14th, 2003 Anonymous says:
A rdbms is not also a dbms?
I think, by virtue of both being SQL-compliant, they are relational database manegement systems?
Also, I know MySQL gets a lot of press, but once you want for something standard and easy to handle, Postgresql is great.
Not much slower, and quite complete.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 14th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Both MySQL and PostgreSQL have relational querying features, although PostgreSQL enjoys more relational *constraint* features and abstractions (views, rules).
But then again according to Codd, Date, and other original relational thinkers, SQL itself is, by definition, not truly relational; it violates the relational model in several areas. So, even PostgreSQL (as much as I like it) does not deserve the title of RDBMS.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 13th, 2003 Anonymous says:
you're talking rubbish... both mysql and postgresql are relational database management systems (rdbms).
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 18th, 2003 Anonymous says:
<rant>
No no no no no no!
MySQL is an SQL wrapper around flat files. There are no foreign keys and no transactions (and don't even start on the BDB and InnoDB table types - I want a god damn rdbms that has BOTH at the SAME TIME, not one or the other). Anyone who looks at MySQL, and I'm not saying its a bad piece of software.. but anyone that has only looked at MySQL without using PostgreSQL, Oracle or (God forbid) SQL Server, has NO concept of what an RDBMS is. MySQL is great for reporting and SELECTS but I want data consistency - look around the web, you'll find lots of examples of MySQL destroying YOUR data on insert.
</rant>
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 12th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Product of the year is a server which isn't also the best server of the year?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awar
On July 12th, 2003 Anonymous says:
Where's the Award for MPlayer ? ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ )
And i also see there's not even a Award for :
Best Multimedia Player .
Robert
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