On September 29, InfoWorld’s Executive Editor Doug Dineley proudly announced this year’s winners of the Best Open Source Software Awards or popularly known as Bossie Awards.
The annual Bossie Awards recognize the outstanding “business-oriented open source software products” currently available in the market. This year’s Bossie Awards has over 120 open source projects winners divided in the following categories: application development tools, datacenter and cloud software, desktop and mobile software, networking and security software, and big data tools. All of which were wisely selected, evaluated and recommended by InfoWorld’s editors and expert contributors. With 42 winners, Application development tools category has the most number of winners among the six.
For three consecutive years, Node.js, PhoneGap and Jenkins have been included in this category. Winners from last year such as Less, Angular.JS, Backbone.js, JQuery, D3, OpenShift, Scala, Ruby, Python were also present this year. Here is the complete list of InfoWorld’s 2014 Best Open Source Application Development Tools which software developers can choose from:
- ~D3 (Data-Driven Documents)
- ~Famo.us
- ~JQuery
- ~Atom
- ~Brackets
- ~Node.js
- ~Node-webkit
- ~Hack and HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)
- ~CoffeeScript
- ~Less (Leaner CSS)
- ~Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)
- ~Git
- ~Mercurial
- ~GitLab
- ~Homebrew
- ~Appium
- ~Dart
- ~Express
- ~Backbone.js
- ~Koa
- ~AngularJS
- ~OpenShift
- ~Cloud Foundry
- ~Docker
- ~Java
- ~Groovy
- ~Scala
- ~F#
- ~Go
- ~Play
- ~TypeScript
- ~Akka
- ~Python
- ~Ruby
- ~Vagrant
- ~Jenkins
- ~NetBeans IDE 8.0
- ~Eclipse
- ~Apache Cordova (aka PhoneGap)
- ~Karma
- ~Clojure
- ~jq
Check out other winners for the rest of the categories:
- Bossie Awards 2014: The best open source applications – (16 winners)
- Bossie Awards 2014: The best open source big data tools – (20 winners)
- Bossie Awards 2014: The best open source data center and cloud software – (19 winners)
- Bossie Awards 2014: The best open source desktop and mobile software – (14 winners)
- Bossie Awards 2014: The best open source networking and security software – (9 winners)
Congratulations to all winners!