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Online Extra: BNTA winners

By GCN Staff

Here are winners of Best New Technology Awards at FOSE 2004. Products were judged by editors and writers of Government Computer News and Washington Technology

Desktop Clients Winner: Gateway Profile 5 — small-footprint, all-in-one PC with up to 1G of DDR SDRAM and room for expansion. Gateway Inc., Powway, Calif., www.gateway.com.

IBM ThinkCentre S50 — 2.06GHz Intel Pentium 4 PC with 256M of RAM and IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0. IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y., www.ibm.com.

Ace Vision Desktop — 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 PC with 512M of RAM and an 80G hard drive. JC Technology DBA Ace Computers, Arlington Heights, Ill., www.acecomputers.com.

Enterprise Application Software Winner: Macromedia Studio MX 2004 — Latest version of MX includes new versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and FreeHand MX. Macromedia Inc., San Francisco, www.macromedia.com.

Siebel Public Sector Analytics 7.7 — customer analytic solution software. Siebel Systems Inc., San Mateo, Calif., www.siebel.com.

ZyIMAGE v5.0 — document management software. ZyLAB North America LLC, McLean, Va., www.zylab.com.

Cardiff LiquidOffice 3.0 — e-form software. Cardiff Software Inc., Vista, Calif., www.cardiff.com.

Enterprise System Software Winner: Qovia — Best in Show — Modular software and Linux server appliance for monitoring and managing voice over IP systems. Qovia Inc., Frederick, Md., www.qovia.com.

HP OpenView Data Protector 5.1a — instant recovery software. Hewlett-Packard Co. Marimba 6.0 — management suite for clients and servers. Marimba Inc., Mountain View, Calif., www.marimba.com.

Metis 3.4 — enterprise architecture tool. Computas NA, Sammamish, Wash., www.computas.com.

VMware Virtual Center — virtual infrastructure computing software. VMware Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., www.vmware.com.

Akamai EdgeControl — Internet content and application management software. Akamai Technologies Inc., Cambridge, Mass., www.akamai.com.

Display Devices Winner: InFocus LP640 — LCD projector that combines high-quality images with quiet performance and ease-of-use features. InFocus Corp., Wilsonville, Ore., www.infocus.com.

Sympodium ID250 — interactive pen display. Smart Technologies Inc., Calgary, Alberta, www.smarttech.com.

Walk-and-Talk Presentation Series — interactive whiteboards. PolyVision Corp., Norcross, Ga., www.polyvision.com.

VT770 — LCD projector. NEC Solutions America Inc., Itasca, Ill., www.necvisualsystems.com.

Handheld Clients Winner: Blackberry 7510 — Handheld device with always-on capability, a walkie-talkie feature, secure communications and a host of application support. Research In Motion Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario, www.rim.net.

Panasonic Toughbook 01 — rugged handheld computer. Panasonic Computer Solutions Co., Secaucus, N.J. www.panasonic.com/toughbook.

PerComm e80 — non-OS handheld. Arch Wireless Inc., Westborough, Mass., www.arch.com.

Network Hardware Winner: Dell PowerConnect 2600 — Plug-and-play Gigabit Ethernet switch in eight-, 16- and 24-port configurations, priced as low as $18 per port. Dell Inc., Round Rock, Texas, www.dell.com.