Open source software also won two categories -- Apache Jakartaas Best Application Server, nudging Microsoft Windows Server 2003 out of the top spot with just six votes, and Apache Axisas Best Web Services Product with 30.1 percent of the vote -- and with three second-place finishes, the darling of enterprise networking is putting the heat on big-name vendors. Axis also won 19.2 percent of the Best Product vote; 23.7 percent of the Best Database votes went to MySQL4.0; and Red Hat earned 27.2 percent of the Best OS vote. "Linux is becoming better-known as a great operating system than as a free operating system. It adds much needed competition to the software industry," says Mike Millson, Web systems engineer at Merit Online Systems in Atlanta.
If there's one thing that hasn't changed in the 17 years we've been publishing the Readers' Choice Awards, it's the challenge to give as many readers access to the ballot as possible while keeping the voting honest. To keep ballot-box stuffing to a minimum, we e-mailed the ballot URL to registered InfoWorldsubscribers as well as to online readers who requested the ballot from a business address. For the second year, we administered the ballot through online service SurveyMonkey.com, which tracks IP addresses in an effort to limit voting to one ballot per reader. It may not be perfect system (yes, we realize that a hypermotivatedreader could clear his or her cookies and vote again), but it did let us make one important catch: vendor votes.
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