APC Internet Technology Awards 2007

22nd March 2007- APC congratulates all the finalists and winners of the APC Internet Technology Awards. They were nominated and selected by Australia's toughest judging panel: APC readers. The Awards were announced at a gala dinner at Sydney's Star City Casino Astral restaurant, and sponsored by Microsoft. In attendance were some of the Internet's biggest players, as well as the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and Deputy Leader of the Senate, the Hon Helen Coonan. Read a transcript of her speech.

THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS

INTERNET TECHNOLOGY OF THE YEAR 2007

• Telstra BigPond Wireless Broadband on Next G Network

The APC Internet Technology of the Year Award 2007 has been won by Telstra for its BigPond Wireless Broadband on the Next G network service. Wireless broadband delivered over Telstra's next generation 3G network has the broadest coverage of any mobile network in Australia with full broadband speed across the network. It's one of the earliest wide scale commercial rollouts of HSDPA mobile technology in the world. APC readers recognised this as a major achievement.

MICROSOFT SPECIAL AWARD FOR INNOVATION

• Si-Mi

The major sponsor of the APC Internet Technology Awards, Microsoft Australia, provided its own award for best use of Microsoft technologies. It was won by Si-Mi, an innovative social marketplace for digital content from Melbourne.

More photos from the Awards

ALL THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS

Each of the categories below has three sub-category winners (plus finalists), and an overall category winner. The sub-category winners are the clear winners of their particular segment. The one which most easily won its segment took out the overall category award.

BEST INTERNET DEVELOPMENT TOOL

• IDE: Visual Studio 2005 Team System

• Eclipse 3.2 IDE
• Sun NetBeans 5.5
• Zend Studio 5.x

• Web Design: Adobe Dreamweaver 8

• Nvu (open source)
• Adobe Go Live
• NetObjects Fusion

• Programmable Web: Google Maps API

• OpenKapow RoboMaker
• QEDWiki (IBM)
• Yahoo Pipes

• Overall category winner: Adobe Dreamwear 8

BEST INTERNET DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

• Server: Apache 2.2.4

• Adobe Flash Media Server 2
• Microsoft IIS 7.0
• Sun Java System Web Server 7.0
• Zeus Web Server

• Database:Microsoft SQL Server 2005

• Navicat GUI for MySQL (PremiumSoft)
• Oracle Database XE
• PostgreSQL 8x
• MySQL 5.0

• Framework: Ruby on Rails 1.2

• Adobe Flex 2
• IBM Websphere
• Microsoft ASP.Net Ajax 1.0
• Oracle Application Server

• Overall category winner: Microsoft SQL Server 2005

BEST COLLABORATION & PUBLISHING PLATFORM

• Community: Wordpress

• Drupal
• MODx
• MediaWiki
• Umbraco

• Intranet: Intranet Dashboard

• Google Apps Premier Edition
• Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
• Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.5
• Twiki
• Enterprise: Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
• Atlassian Confluence
• IBM Websphere Portal
• JotSpot (Google)
• Lotus Notes Domino