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InfoWorld Readers' Choice Awards 2002
InfoWorld readers have spoken
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JUL. 11, 2002 - 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.
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Wayne Rash is a senior analysts at the InfoWorld Test Center
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What is IT about in 2002? |
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According to members of the CTO Network:
"2002 is a back-to-basics kind of year: back to revenue, quality, and
customer service."
- Jeff Carter, CTO, Elogex, Charlotte, N.C.
"IT investment last year shifted from using technology as a strategic advantage to using
technology to increase profits."
- John M. Hann, founder and CTO, e-numera, Billerica, Mass.
"2002 looks to be the year Web services really take off and large-scale strategic
outsourcing becomes a reality."
- Damian Roskill, CTO and VP of Web operations, RxCentric, New York
"The most interesting trend is the move toward convergence of applications over the Internet."
- Anthony Hill, CTO, Golden Gate University, San Francisco
"Shakeout in the Web space left us only with the very, very good and very, very bad companies
doing business online. The middle ... will be filled with new entrants energizing the economy
in years to come."
- Slawek Ligier, VP and CTO, Comtex News Network, Alexandria, Va.
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