The winners of this year's "LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards" were presented with their trophies at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston at an Awards ceremony emceed by SYS-CON Media Group Publisher & Editorial Director Jeremy Geelan and captured on SYS-CON.TV for distribution Web-wide. The prestigious "Best of Show" Award, presented at the futuristic Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (pictured) went to the Novell-sponsored openSUSE project.

The Awards, which as in previous years were organized jointly by SYS-CON Media's LinuxWorld Magazine and IDG World Expo, recognize product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors and were presented in 12 separate categories, plus the “Best of Show” award. The event was recorded by SYS-CON.TV's cameras at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, April 5 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

Here is the list of winners in full:

Best Application Development Platform
• Novell Inc. - Mono Development Framework

Best Clustering Solution
• Continuent - Continuent p/Cluster

Best Desktop Solution
• SunWah - Linux Rays LX 1.5

Best Grid Computing Solution
• Themis - DCRM

Best Database Solution
• Oracle - Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

Best Messaging Solution
 • Scalix - Scalix Appliance

Best Open Source Solution
• Xchange Server 5 - Open

Best Security Solution
• Barracuda Networks - Barracuda Spyware Firewall

Best Systems Management Tools
• rPath Inc. - rBuilder

Best Virtualization Solution
• Swsoft Inc. - Virtuozzo for Linux

Most Innovative Hardware
• AMD - Dual Core AMD Opteron processors Models 885, 285 and 185

Best Integration Solution
• Xandros - Xandros Server


Also recorded on at LinuxWorld 2006 in Boston were executives from all of the following leading companies, all of whom talked in detail with SYS-CON.TV host Jeremy Geelan about their latest initiatives and overall open-source philosophy:

Eirik Chambe-Eng, President of Trolltech (www.trolltech.com)
Erik Logan, CTO, Pogo Linux (www.pogolinux.com)
Doug Levin, CEO, Black Duck Software (http://www.blackducksoftware.com)
Miguel de Icaza, VP Developer Platform and Mono Project leader, Novell (www.novell.com)
Donald Becker, CTO of Penguin Computing (www.penguincomputing.com)
Pierre Fricke, Director of Product Management, JBoss (www.jboss.com)
Jacob Taylor, Co-Founder & CTO, SugarCRM (www.sugarcrm.com)
Serguei Beloussov, Chairman & CEO, SWSoft (www.swsoft.com)
Russell Shelton Director, OEM Business Development, Continuent (www.continuent.com)
Gary Cornell, CEO & Publisher, Apress; and W. Jason Gilmore, Assistant Editorial Director (www.apress.com)
Michael Lueffler, Business Development & Marketing, open SUSE (www.opensuse.org)
Adam Fineberg, VP of Engineering for Levanta (www.levanta.com)
Maria Winslow, Editorial Board Member, LinuxWorld Magazine (www.LinuxWorld.com)
Jeff Liang, CTO of MessageSolution Inc. (www.messagesolution.com)
Tony Mauphin, VoiceRD Practice Manager, NovaCoast (www.novacoast.com)
Erich Forler, Senior Product Development Manager, Xandros (www.xandros.com)
Dan Kusnetsky, EVP, Marketing Strategy, Open-Xchange (www.open-xchange.com)
Chad Hanson, Manager, Trusted Operating Systems Development Lab, Trusted Computer Solutions (www.trustedCS.com) Douglas C. Norton, Director of Strategic Alliances, Newisys (www.newisys.com)
Tom Myers, Senior Product Manager, Mapinfo (www.mapinfo.com)
David Stapp, President, i*hydra (www.ihydra.com)
Vitor Souza, Marketing Coordinator, bitdefender (www.bitdefender.com)
John Nguyen, Worldwide Channel Marketing Manager, Tyan Computer Corp (www.tyan.com)
and Dan Elder, Linux Practice Manager, NovaCoast (www.novacoast.com)