Wearing our private-investigator hats, we looked up every single IP address associated with each anonymous ballot and uncovered -- and expunged -- more than 530 votes from vendors attempting to sway the results in their favor. The most egregious offender was Oracle, whose employees voted more than 250 times from mail servers around the world. Also, AMD employees chimed in almost 100 times. These vendors' employees were not singled out -- we deleted ballots that came in from any vendor's mail servers as well as those from PR firms that represent vendors. As much as we appreciate loyalty from employees and their enthusiasm for their companies' products, we want the Readers' Choice Awards to reflect the real-world experiences end-users and chief technologists have had with the enterprise products released in the past year.
To compile this year's ballot, we took another look at all of the new products we've covered since last year's Readers' Choice Awards and, based on the InfoWorld Test Center analysts' recommendations, chose as candidates the products that achieved the highest scores in our reviews and impressed us as being the strongest and most innovative. If a worthy enterprise product seems missing from this ballot, it is likely because the application or hardware wasn't launched -- either as a full or point release -- since May 2002. Readers cast 1,010 votes total, but weren't required to weigh in on each category.
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