2009 Finalists

IBM Rational Application Developer (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application/index.html)
an IDE for visually designing, constructing, testing, and deploying Web services, portals, and J2EE applications.

Embarcadero JBuilder 2008 (http://www.codegear.com/products/jbuilder)
a Java IDE based on the Eclipse open source framework with support for both commercial and open source Java EE 5 application servers.

JBoss Developer Studio (http://www.redhat.com/developer_studio/)
aims to provide developers everything needed to build rich Web applications using technologies like: Hibernate, JBoss Seam and JBoss AS.

JetBrains ReSharper 4.1 (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/)
productivity tool that fully integrates with Visual Studio to extend the functionality that is native to Visual Studio.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/default.mspx)
a suite of tools designed to help software developers create next-gen applications.

Oracle JDeveloper (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev)
an integrated development environment with end-to-end support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java.

CollabNet CUBiT 2.0 (http://www.collab.net/products/CUBiT/)
a virtual private cloud management solution for teams to centrally manage build and test environments.

Sun Microsytems NetBeans (http://www.netbeans.org/)
an integrated development environment (IDE) developed using the NetBeans Platform.

Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org)
a project aiming to provide a universal toolset for development.

Adobe Flex Builder (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/features/flex_builder/)
an Eclipse based development tool enabling intelligent coding, interactive step-through debugging, and visual design of the user interface layout, appearance

Citrix GoToMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/)
a collaboration solution to meet, train, demonstrate, and collaborate online.

Jive Software Clearspace (http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace)
enterprise collaboration software built from the ground up for teams, companies, and communities.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/)
solution for web conferencing and eLearning.

Microsoft Unified Communications (http://www.microsoft.com/uc/Default.mspx)
technologies aimed at streamlining communications between people and organizations, bringing together e-mail, voice mail, and Web conferencing.

phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/)
open Source forum solution.

37Signals Basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com/)
a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects.

Taroby (http://www.taroby.org)
a web-based collaboration systems for Teams and Workgroups.

Central Desktop (http://www.centraldesktop.com/)
provides collaboration tools for business teams.

Microsoft Office (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx)
software suite consisting of different applications including word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X..

activeCollab (http://www.activecollab.com/)
a project management and collaboration tool that you can set up on your own website.

WebEx WebOffice (http://www.webexone.com/)
Online database, intranet and online web calendar.

Liferay Portal (http://www.liferay.com)
An enterprise open source portal framework that integrates content management, collaboration and social networking.

EMC Documentum eRoom (http://www.emc.com/products/detail/software/eroom.htm)
an easily adopted web-based collaborative workspace that aims to enable distributed teams to work together more efficiently.

IBM Lotus Connections (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/)
a Web-based social software application that leverages on the power of dynamic networks for coworkers, partners and customers.

IBM WebSphere Portal (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/server/index.html?S_TACT=103BEW01&S_CMP=campaign)
enables companies to build a custom portal, a web site that puts the needs of employees, business partners and customers in one central location.

Interwoven TeamSite (http://www.interwoven.com/components/pagenext.jsp?topic=PRODUCT::TEAMSITE)
allows enterprises to manage content across a range of Web-based enterprise business applications from within a single infrastructure.

Drupal (http://drupal.org/)
an open source content management platform.

Ingeniux CMS 6 (http://www.ingeniux.com/)
claims to enable organizations to launch Web sites in record time; based entirely on open standard XML.

Plone (http://plone.org/)
open source CMS for Content Management, Document Management and Knowledge Management.

EMC Documentum (http://www.clickability.com/)
content management platform that manages different types of content across the enterprise within a common information infrastructure

TYPO3 (http://typo3.com/)
a free Open Source small to midsize enterprise-class content management system.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/default.aspx)
an integrated suite of server capabilities that aims to help improve organizational effectiveness.

Alfresco CMS (http://www.alfresco.com/products/)
an open source enterprise content management system that aims to offer a solution that focuses on low cost.

Instantiations WindowBuilder Pro (http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilder/index.html?id=1)
a Java GUI builder that includes Swing Designer, SWT Designer, and GWT Designer.

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/features.html)
a Unified Modeling Language tool.

No Magic MagicDraw UML (http://www.magicdraw.com/)
a CASE tool that supports UML 2.1.2 standard, code engineering for multiple programming languages (Java, C++, C# and other) as well as for data modeling.

Microsoft Visual Studio Architect Edition (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/bb933749.aspx)
aimed at improving the design and validation of distributed systems, enabling organizations to lower the risk of deployment of enterprise-class distributed systems.

Ravenflow RAVEN (http://www.ravenflow.com/products/index.php)
aims at empowering business and software development teams to collaborate and manage risk during the requirements validation process.

IBM Rational Rose (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/rose/)
an object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML) software design tool intended for visual modeling and component construction of enterprise-level software...

Genuitec MyEclipse (http://www.myeclipseide.com/)
a commercially available Java EE and AJAX IDE created and maintained by the company Genuitec.

Sybase PowerDesigner (http://www.sybase.com/powerdesigner)
runs under Microsoft Windows as a native application, and runs under Eclipse through a plugin.

Accurev (http://www.accurev.com/accurev.html)
an SCCM solution designed for an agile, complex parallel, geographically distributed and offshore application development environments.

Serena TeamTrack (http://www.serena.com/products/teamtrack/)
a web-architected, secure and highly configurable process and issue management system.

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Edition (http://www.collab.net/products/sfee/)
integrated tools for SCM, requirements management, issue and task tracking, communication and ALM.

MKS Integrity (http://www.mks.com/products/source)
aims to protect software assets, provides an audit trail of change, and supports popular development best practices.

McCabe CM (http://www.mccabe.com/cm.htm)
manages and tracks the entire application lifecycle from requests thru production.

CA Software Change Manager (http://www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?ID=255)
designed to help organizations better manage and control globally distributed software change initiatives, from request to release.

Perforce SCM (http://www.perforce.com/)
aims to provide maximum control with minimum interference.

Serena Dimensions (http://www.serena.com/products/dimensions/dimensions-cm.html)
an SCM solution that provides comprehensive process control, workflow management, version management, issue management, build management...

Rational Software Architect (http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/architect/swarchitect/)
leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services.

Collabnet Subversion (http://www.open.collab.net/products/subversion/)
an enterprise-ready distribution of Subversion that includes certified binaries, platform-specific installers and certified plugins for Eclipse among others.

Klocwork Insight (http://www.klocwork.com/products/insight.asp)
a static source code analysis tool for C, C++, C#, and Java, with a Connected Desktop Analysis capability.

BMC AppSight 6.0 (http://www.bmc.com/products/products_services_detail/0,,0_0_69087816.html)
addresses the problems of reproducing and tracking down bugs.

Atlassian Clover (http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/)
a Code Coverage Analysis application that includes features such as historical reporting, control over the coverage gathering process and others.

Coverity Prevent SQS (http://www.coverity.com/html/coverity-prevent-static-analysis.html)
a solution for automated source code analysis of C/C++, C# and Java software.

Fortify Tracer (http://www.fortify.com/fortifytracer/report/)
to find application vulnerabilities during normal functional testing (automated or manual).

Ounce Labs' Ounce (http://www.ouncelabs.com/)
analyzes software source code to identify security vulnerabilities in source code.

The iTKO LISA Suite (http://www.itko.com/site/products/index.jsp)
a unified solution for testing, validating and virtualizing complex, rapidly changing business applications.

VMLogix LabManager (http://www.vmlogix.com/Products/VMLogix-LabManager/)
leverages virtualization to consolidate and automate lab IT infrastructure to deliver and maintain software applications.

Compuware DevPartner Studio (http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/studio.htm)
suite of software development and testing tools to enable building applications, components and web services for .NET and native Windows platforms.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/bb933754.aspx)
suite of testing tools for Web applications and services integrated into the Visual Studio environment.

Keynote Systems' KITE 2.0 (http://www.keynote.com/)
a desktop application for testing the performance of Web sites.

JUnit.org (http://www.junit.org/)
a testing framework for writing and performing automated testing programs.

Quest Software's InTrust for Databases (http://www.quest.com/intrust/)
monitors critical systems and detects inappropriate or suspicious access and exploits and then generates reports and automated real-time alerts on those activities.

Atlassian Crowd (http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/)
a web-based single sign-on (SSO) tool that aims to simplify application provisioning and identity management.

Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES (http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/rightsmanagement/)
a SOA J2EE-based server software product used to build applications that automate business processes for enterprises and government agencies.

Parasoft Application Security Solution (http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/solutions/application_security_solution.jsp)
aims to establish a continuous process that ensures security verification and remediation tasks are ingrained into the team's workflow.

Fortify Defender (http://www.fortify.com/)
aims to enable a new, highly effective layer of Web application security by monitoring security-critical functions and application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the...

Kaspersky Open Space Security (http://www.kaspersky.com/)
includes not only protection of the company network perimeter but of all nodes on the network, regardless of location, type of device, or platform.

Prescient Author (http://www.prescientauthor.com/)
a Rapid Application development tool for building database driven dot Net applications.

InfoSoftGlobal FusionCharts (http://www.fusioncharts.com/)
helps to create animated and interactive Flash charts for web and desktop applications.

Dojo Toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org/)
an open source modular JavaScript library [toolkit] designed to ease the rapid development of cross platform, JavaScript/Ajax based applications and web sites.

Aptana Studio (http://www.aptana.com/)
an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for building Ajax web applications.

Microsoft ASP.NET (http://www.asp.net/)
web application framework including page and controls framework, ASP.NET compiler, security infrastructure, state-management facilities, amongst others.

Embarcadero 3rdRail (http://www.codegear.com/products/3rdrail)
built from the ground up to bring high efficiency coding and visualization tools to Ruby on Rails development.

Adobe Flash Platform (http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform)
an integrated set of technologies surrounded by an ecosystem of support programs, business partners and enthusiastic user communities brough together to create...

Yahoo! SearchMonkey (http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/)
Yahoo! Search's open platform that developers and site owners can use to structure data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing.

Bungee Connect (http://www.bungeeconnect.com/)
a completely web-based integrated development environment (IDE) for building and deploying rich Ajax web applications.

Microsoft Silverlight (http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGHT/overview/default.aspx)
a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback that characterise rich Internet applications.

Adobe ColdFusion 8 (http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/)
aims to solve the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development.

Keynote MITE (http://mite.keynote.com/)
a desktop testing tool that allows mobile developers to interactively test and validate mobile content over the Internet or live carrier networks.

Windows Mobile (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/default.aspx)
operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API.

Adobe Device Central (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/devicecentral/)
software to simplify the production of content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices, which saves time by automating testing and simulating the...

Nokia Symbian (http://www.symbian.com/index.asp)
an operating system designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools.

Qualcomm BREW (http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/)
an application development platform created by QUALCOMM for mobile phones.

.NET Compact Framework (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa497273.aspx)
a version of the .NET Framework designed to run on Windows CE based mobile/embedded devices; uses some of the same class libraries as the full .NET...

Apache Struts (http://struts.apache.org/)
a free open-source framework, which implements the MVC design pattern, suitable for development teams that need to split the development work among specialists.

Spring Framework (http://www.springsource.org/about)
an open source application framework for the Java platform, created to address the complexity of enterprise application development.

Yii (http://www.yiiframework.com/)
Evolved from the Prado framework, it is a component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications with features including MVC...

jQuery (http://jquery.com/)
JavaScript library for rapid Web development with Ajax.

SproutCore (http://www.sproutcore.com/)
JavaScript framework for creating desktop-quality Web apps.

Merb (http://www.merbivore.com/)
a Ruby framework that includes comprehensive features.

Skelta BPM.NET Developer Edition (http://www.skelta.com/products/bpm/for-Developers.aspx)
provides the process abstraction layer and also offers a rapid application development framework.

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/)
builds incrementally on the new features added in .NET Framework 3.0 and is now available as a separate download.

JBoss Seams (http://www.jboss.com/products/seam)
open source development platform for building rich Internet applications in Java.

Oracle Database 11g (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/)
latest version of the Oracle database; built with focus on Fusion Middleware, RAC and ASM, this version has added enhanced materialized view and cube management...

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx)
aims to make data management self-tuning, self organizing and self maintaining to provide near-zero downtime.

IBM InfoSphere Warehouse (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/warehouse/)
IBM InfoSphere Warehouse, positioned as a full solution in data management, is a data warehouse offering based on IBM DB2.

Vertica Analytic Database (http://www.vertica.com/)
production-proven columnar database with an MPP architecture able to quickly handle concurrent complex queries on massive amounts of data while running on 'green'...

Teradata (http://www.teradata.com/)
offers several data warehouse appliances combining hardware, operating system and DBMS.

Sun Microsystems-MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)
widely used open-source DBMS engine with 11 million active installations and 60,000+ downloads per day; acquired by Sun Microsystems in Jan 2008.

Netezza (http://www.netezza.com/)
leverages its hardware acceleration strategy with multilayered processing, but has introduced complex and large data set processing beyond the warehouse.

Quest Software's TOAD (http://www.quest.com/toad/)
database development software & database administration software for SQL tuning in Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, & MySQL.