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YOU, OUR READERS, have spoken, and the message is loud and clear: Big Blue is back with a vengeance, Research in Motion's BlackBerry is the wireless device of choice, and Microsoft may be suffering a slide in the enterprise.

From servers to enterprise applications to services to its corporate leaders, IBM is the big winner of 2002, sweeping seven categories, including Technologist of the Year; Vendor of the Year, with 32 percent of the vote (way up from last year's 18 percent tally); and for a second time, Professional Services Provider of the Year, with 42 percent of the vote.

The BlackBerry is your favorite single product with four wins, including Product of the Year, with 41 percent of the vote, and Gadget of the Year, edging out Apple's iPod with 50 percent of the vote. And for the second year running, Microsoft -- the vendor everyone loves to hate -- failed to take a top spot.

More than 5,200 InfoWorld readers voted in this year's Readers' Choice Awards, casting their ballots online from April through June. Our senior editorial team determined the candidates for each category, basing nominations on the top products and services released during the past 12 months. To manage the voting process, we outsourced the ballot to the cookie-using Surveymonkey.com.

Because you, as InfoWorld readers, are technically astute and have a sound sense of what's good for business, your choices lend valuable insight into enterprise trends. IBM's WebSphere suite continues to be popular. After racking up three wins in 2001, it took three more this year, including Best Application Server, winning 40 percent of the vote; last year, WebSphere Application Server earned just 10 percent. Also repeating their winning performances from 2001 are Siebel 7, with 38 percent of the Best CRM Product vote, and Oracle9i, which took 43 percent of the Best Database ballots.

Web services are clearly gaining ground among readers, who named SOAP/UDDI/WSDL the Standard of the Year with 34 percent of the vote; last year, they earned just 8 percent of the tally.

Novell, forever suspected of being on the verge of extinction, quietly took the Best Operating System category with 29 percent of the vote, as Linux devotees split their votes between Red Hat (22 percent) and SuSE (11 percent).

And the most poignant win goes to Loudcloud, which swept the xSP of the Year category with 33 percent of the vote -- right before announcing the sale of its hosting business to EDS.

Return to our 2002 Readers' Choice Awards package.

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In the 2002 Readers' Choice Awards special report, we misreported how many awards IBM won. Big Blue was chosen for eight awards this year, including one for its Tivoli Storage Manager as Best Enterprise Storage Product. Also, we misreported the BEA product that was nominated in the Best Application Server category. The product is WebLogic Server 7.0.