17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards Finalists

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Winners of the 17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards will be announced at SD West 2007 in Santa Clara, CA in late March. Here are the categories with Microsoft products as finalists:

Change and Configuration Management

AccuRev 4.5 with AccuWorkflow (Accurev)
AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
Automated Build Studio (AutomatedQA)
FLEXnet Connect (Macrovision)
Perforce SCM (Perforce)
Team Foundation Server (Microsoft Corporation)
CA Wily Introscope ChangeDetector (CA / Wily Technology)

Database Engines and Data Tools

Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
MarkLogic Server (Mark Logic)
SQL Anywhere (Sybase iAnywhere)
SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)

Development Environments

EiffelStudio Open Source Edition (Eiffel Software)
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
IronPython (Microsoft)
Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework (Microsoft)
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research)

Libraries, Frameworks and Components

JViews (ILOG)
NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)
telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms (Telerik)
.NET Framework 3.0 (Microsoft)
Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel)
Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework (Microsoft)
The Mono Project (Novell)

Update: Original post missed a Microsoft Press finalist.

Books (Practical/General Developer Interest)

Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (Addison-Wesley) by Alistair Cockburn
Catastrophe Disentanglement (Addison-Wesley) by E. M. Bennatan
Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Apress) by Eric Sink
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
Software Creativity 2.0 (DeveloperDotStar) by Robert L. Glass
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Microsoft Press) by Steve McConnell
Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (Dorset House) by Gerald M. Weinberg

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