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JAX Innovation Award 2007 announced

“Groovy” wins 1st prize // Software & Support Verlag awards 20,000 Euros for innovative contributions to Java, Eclipse and SOA

Wiesbaden, April 25, 2007

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The contribution “Groovy” has won the first prize of the JAX Innovation Award 2007 that comes with a purse of 10,000 Euros. Software & Support Verlag announced the winners of the JAX Innovation Award today, which distinguishes innovative projects on Java, Eclipse and SOA with 20,000 Euros. The award ceremony took place during JAX 07, the leading European conference on enterprise IT technologies, attracting over 1,900 attendees.

The winners of the award are:

    1st prize (10.000 Euro): Groovy
    2nd prize (5.000 Euro): SonarJ
    3rd prize (2.000 Euro): openArchitectureWare
    4th prize (1.000 Euro): BPEL-Designer
    5th prize (1.000 Euro): JITS: Java In The Small
    Audience Award (1.000 Euro): Matisse GUI Builder

The JAX Innovation Award was awarded for the second time this year. The award is an initiative of Software & Support Verlag, who wants to support important European projects on everything Java, Eclipse and SOA. The Award is supposed to reflect Europe’s potential for innovative IT projects and aims at putting them at the center of attention by giving them the visibility and financial back up they need for their success. Software AG supported the JAX Innovation Award as co-sponsor for the first time.

Many high quality contributions were handed in from various European countries. Proposals came from companies, individuals, scientific research institutes and other organizations. Practically no limits were set to the nature of the contributions. A possible proposal could be an innovative software, no matter if it was a product (closed or open source), a scientific contribution, a website, blog or business idea.

Members of the jury were renowned Java, Eclipse and SOA experts: Jean Bézivin (Professor, University of Nantes, France), Matthew Langham (CEO, Indiginox), Bola Rotibi (Senior Analyst, Ovum), Ivo Totev (Vice President, Software AG) and Sebastian Meyen (Editor in Chief of Java Magazin, Program Chair JAX). The applicable evaluation criteria of the JAX Innovation Award were the innovative value of the projects, ist creativity, elegance and practical relevance.

The contribution “Groovy”, which received the first prize, was regarded as outstanding by the jury. “Groovy proves in a unique way that the Java Community is capable of substantial innovations even in the year 12 after its creation“, says Sebastian Meyen, member of the JAX Innovation Award Jury. "The project is a satisfying answer to the latest trends regarding agile, dynamic programming languages and helps users to secure their investments in the Java platform.”

Please find all contributions and more information at www.jax-award.com.

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About Software & Support Verlag:

Software & Support Verlag is a renowned German integrated IT media company that provides IT professionals with accurate and timely information, required to keep abreast with developments in the industry, through magazines, online portal and conferences. Software & Support Verlag has an established and longstanding presence in Europe, with a deep customer base in the English and German speaking community of software enterprises, developers, project managers, enterprise solution buyers and IT professionals. Its wide range of magazines, including Java Magazin, Eclipse Magazin, Entwickler Magazin, Linux Enterprise, dot.net magazin, MSDN Magazin – German Edition, MX Magazin, International PHP Magazine and XML & Web Services Magazin, SDA Asia Magazine and SDA Magazine Indonesia provide unbiased reporting, insightful analysis and useful tips, to empower IT professionals with knowledge essential to their daily work.
Software & Support Verlag conceptualises and conducts conferences such as JAX, W-JAX, JAX Asia, BASTA!, SQLCON, Open Database Conference, dot.net Konferenz, the International PHP Conferences, webinale and the SDA Asia Conferences, which are the leading events in the industry, in Germany and abroad. Software & Support Verlag’s comprehensive book program, entwickler.press, ably supports IT architects and software developers with useful, timely information and authoritative solutions to real-world problems, written by top of the line authors, who are distinguished experts in their field. Software & Support Verlag holds offices in Frankfurt and Munich (Germany), Bangalore (India), Singapore and Jakarta (Indonesia).

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