IT Pro Names 'Best Of' Tech-Ed Finalists

Penton Media's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, have announced the finalists in the "Best of Tech-Ed North America Awards 2008" competition. The judges reviewed more than 280 IT and developer products and services submitted for the Tech-Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference and the Tech-Ed 2008 Developers Conference, both to be held in Orlando, Fla. Finalists will be interviewed at each of the shows and one winner from each category will be selected. Winners will be featured in the August issues of Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The Best of Tech-Ed 2008 finalists are:

• ComponentOne Studio for WinForms by ComponentOne
• eXpressApp Framework by Developer Express, Inc.
• SQL Compare Pro by Red Gate Software
• Intercept Studio by AVIcode
• JNBridgePro by JNBridge
• NetAdvantage for .NET by Infragistics
• Sitefinity CMS by Telerik Corp.
• K2 blackpearl by K2
• Office Canvas by Neudesic
• PointFire by IceFire Studios
• ComponentOne Studio Enterprise by ComponentOne
• DXperience by Developer Express, Inc.
• OfficeWriter by SoftArtisans
• Quest MessageStats by Quest Software
• Vantage 2.0 by WebSpy Ltd
• LiteSpeed for SQL Server by Quest Software
• SQL Diagnostic Manager by Idera
• SQL Sentry Event Manager by SQL Sentry, Inc.
• EMC Celerra NS20 by EMC Corporation
• StoreVault S550 by NetApp
• Strangeloop WS1000 Web Services Accelerator by Strangeloop Networks
• Mail Attender for Exchange by Sherpa Software
• OneServer Virtual Edition by Azaleos
• Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 for Microsoft Exchange by Symantec Corporation
• Colligo Contributor Pro for SharePoint by Colligo Networks, Inc.
• Easy CRM SharePoint by BPA Solutions
• Resource Central by Add-On Products
• GFI LANguard by GFI Software
• Quest Archive Manager by Quest SoftwareScanMail for Exchange by Trend Micro
• DocAve Software Platform by AvePoint
• Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint by Quest Software
• Universal SharePoint Manager 2007 by iDevFactory
• Athena Add-In for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 by Odyssey Software
• ChangeAuditor by NetPro Computing
• PowerGUI by Quest Software
• Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) for Virtualization 1.0 by Configuresoft
• everRun VM by Marathon Technologies
• Invista V2.1 by EMC Corporation
• VM Express 1.1 by Prowess
• VMware Infrastructure 3 by Vmware

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