Java wins in the open source SourceForge Community Choice Awards!

Whoaaaa!!!!! Hooray!!!! Weeeeee R d champions, my friend! And we’ll keep on hacking till the end!!!!

Java apps won several major categories in the 2006 SourceForge Community Choice Awards, including the Best Overall app!

  1. Azureus - Best Overall Winner!

    Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform java BitTorrent client.

  2. Zimbra - Enterprise Winner!

    Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with exising infrastructure and applications

  3. Jasper - Enterprise First Runner-Up

    Free Java reporting library. XML report templates are used to generate ready to print documents using data from customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered to the screen, printer, or stored in PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML format

  4. Open Reports - Enterprise Second Runner-Up

    OpenReports is a complete web based reporting solution that provides the ability for users to view dynamically created PDF, HTML or XLS reports in a browser. It is developed in Java and uses JasperReports as the reporting engine.

  5. Javagroups - Clustering Second Runner-Up

    Reliable group communication based on IP multicast and configurable protocol stack

  6. TightVNC - SysAdmin First Runner-Up

    TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include bandwidth-friendly “Tight” encoding, local cursor support on the client side, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.

  7. Webmin - SysAdmin Second Runner-Up

    A web-based system administration tool for Unix servers and services.

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