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Jolt Awards - 1997 Winners

In each of the six categories, we present one Jolt Award and three Productivity Awards. The categories are Books, Design and Management Tools, Libraries and Components, Languages and Development Environments, Utilities, and Special. The Jolt winner was selected as the product that most jolted the industry during the 1997 calendar year. The Productivity Award winners also deserve recognition for having a significant impact in software development. This year for the first time, we've established the Software Development Hall of Fame Award for software tools that have maintained the highest quality over the years, receiving Jolt or Productivity awards multiple times since their initial release.

For more information on the processes of nominating and selecting the Jolt Awards, visit our Jolt Awards general information page.

Books

Object-oriented Software Construction, by Bertrand Meyer (Prentice Hall)

Productivity Awards:

• The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management, by Tom DeMarco (Dorset House Publishing)
• UML Distilled (Addison Wesley Longman)
• Building Object Applications That Work, by Scott Ambler (SIGS Books)

Design and Management Tools

UML Spec 1.0 (Rational Software Corp.)

Productivity Awards:

• Visio Professional (Visio Corp.)
• SPR Knowledge Plan (Software Productivity Research)
• Genitor Corp. Edition (Genitor Corp.)

Languages and Development Environments

Java JDK (JavaSoft - Sun Microsystems)

Productivity Awards:

• JBuilder (Borland International)
• Visual Cafe for Java Database Development Edition (Symantec)
• Borland C++ Builder (Borland International)

Libraries and Components

The San Francisco Project (IBM Corp.)

Productivity Awards:

• Internet Appliance Toolkit (QNX Software Systems)
• dbcomplete (Sybase, Inc.)
• Great Circle (Geodesic Systems, LLC)

Special

Naturally Speaking (Dragon Systems Inc.)

Productivity Awards:

• Red Hat Linux (Red Hat Software Inc.)

Utilities

DevPartner (NuMega)

Productivity Awards:

• Visual SlickEdit 2.0 (MicroEdge)
• InstallShield Professional (InstallShield Software Corporation)
• SunTest Suite (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)

1997 Hall of Fame Winner

Visual Basic (Microsoft Corp.)