Software Awards are funny things. At the Jolt awards these were the big soda can winners:
- General Book: Prefactoring
- General Technical Book: Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails
- Enterprise Project Management: WelcomRisk 2.6
- Database Engines and Data Tools: Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Defect Tracking, Change, and Configuration Management: Perforce SCM 2005
- Design Tools and Modeling: Lattix LDM 2.0
- Development Environments: Visual Studio Team System 2005
- Libraries, Frameworks and Components: .NET Framework 2.0
- Mobile Development Tools: Crossfire 5.6
- Quality Project Management: Rally 5.6
- Security Tools: Elemental Compliance System 1.4
- Testing Tools: VMTN Subscription 2005
- Utilities: Camtasia Studio 3.0
- Web Development Tools: Rails 1.0
- Hall of Fame: Visual Studio Professional Edition
Quick thoughts are that Microsoft and Ruby cleaned up. I actually read the two books that won and I enjoyed both of them.