Smaller companies also take home prizes from the Software & Information Industry Association Winners of this year’s Codie awards, given by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIAA) Tuesday evening, include some familiar names in software as well as some lesser known and new companies.Awards were to be given out at a ceremony in San Francisco with high-profile vendors like Red Hat, Adobe Systems, and Salesforce.com taking home prizes along with newer companies like SightSpeed. Contestants competed in various software and information categories.“What I think is most gratifying is the Codie awards are a [great] leveler and smaller companies have as much chance to win as large companies,” said Ken Wasch, SIAA president. In an industry that increasingly looks like it is dominated by a few larger players, the Codie award gives everyone a chance, he stressed “It’s a celebration of the breadth and depth of our industry,” Wasch said.Contestants were self-nominated in 72 categories and judged on the basis of usability and features. Winners were subject to three rounds of judging; they receive a trophy and the right to incorporate their victory in promotions.Among the categories, winners, and products were: * Asset management — Express Metrix with its Express Software Manager * Business intelligence or knowledge management — Tableau Software, Tableau Desktop v3.0 * Business Productivity — Jigsaw, Jigsaw. * Collaboration solution — Adobe, Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional * Communication Solution — SightSpeed, SightSpeed 6.0 * Content Management — Clickability, Clickability On-Demand Web Content Management Platform * Data Security — Absolute Software, Computrace Complete * Database management — FileMaker, FileMaker Pro 9 * E-commerce — NetSuite, NetSuite 2007.0 * Enterprise search engine — Coveo, Coveo Enterprise Search 5.0 * Identity management — Red Hat, Red Hat Directory Server * Open source solution — Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 * On-demand platform – -Salesforce.com, Force.com * Security solution — Novell, Novell Identity and Security Management Portfolio * SaaS solution — Salesforce.com, Salesforce CRM * Software development — Infragistics, Infragistics NetAdvantage for .Net 2007.3 * Systems management — Kace, Kbox Systems Management Appliance * Web services solution — Adobe, Adobe ColdFusion 8. The full list of winners was to be posted at a Web page accessible here immediately following the event. Software Development