Come find out the vendors that won InfoWorld's 2008 Bossie awards. You'll find some OSS leaders and some surprise winners. InfoWord recently released winners of the 2008 Bossie Awards. The awards are based on a review and analysis of the products in action by the InfoWorld Test Center. As the authors state:“The breadth and quality of free software offerings is in fact overwhelming, and many of our choices were difficult. Please let us know what we missed.”I’ve included the winners’ list below. But head on over to the slideshows for each category to read details behind the choices. Best of open source in enterprise applications: Content Management: Alfresco Community Enterprise Resource Planning: Compiere Project Management: dotProject Application Monitoring: Hyperic HQ Business Process Management: Intalio BPMS Enterprise Portal: Liferay Portal E-Commerce: Magento eCommerce Business Intelligence: Pentaho Open BI Suite Customer Relationship Management: SugarCRM Best of open source in platforms and middleware: Server Operating System: CentOS Enterprise Service Bus: JBossESB Data Migration: Jitterbit Database: MySQL MySQL Administration: phpMyAdmin Small-Footprint OS: Puppy Linux Desktop Operating System: Ubuntu Desktop Virtualization: VirtualBox Server Virtualization: Xen Best of open source in collaboration: Social Networking: Elgg Wiki: MediaWiki Remote Control: VNC and Chicken of the VNC Mail and Calendar: Scalix Blog Publishing: WordPress Best of open source in application development: Object Database: db4o Version Control: Git Web Client Library: HttpClient Parallel Programming: Intel Threaded Building Blocks Business Rule Management System: JBoss Drools Rich Internet Applications: Open Flex JavaScript Framework: Prototype Web Services Test Tool: soapUI Best of open source in productivity applications: Sound Editing: Audacity 3D Modeling: Blender Web Browser: Firefox Image Editing: GIMP Productivity Suite: OpenOffice.org PDF Creation: PDFCreator Best of open source in networking: IP Telephony: Asterisk Log File Analyzer: AWStats Wireless Network Scanner: InSSIDer Server Monitoring: Nagios Wireless Network Interface: NDISwrapper Router, Firewall & VPN: Vyatta Network Protocol Analyzer: Wireshark Network Monitoring: Zenoss Core Best of open source in security: Application Security: AppArmor Penetration Toolkit: Metasploit Framework Password Cracker: Ophcrack Network Firewall: SmoothWall Express Network Intrusion Detection: Snort with BASE Security Log Analysis: Splunk Disk Encryption: TrueCrypt Gateway Security: Untangle Gateway Platform Best of open source in storage: Network Backup: Amanda Storage Server: FreeNAS File Management: WinMerge Disk Monitoring: SMART Monitoring Tools Storage Administration: StorageIM Online Backup: Free Online Backup Kudos to all the winners! By the way, anyone else want to check out the 3D Modeling tool “Blender”? Open Source