The winners of the 23rd Annual SIIA Codie Awards have been announced, and ColdFusion 8 has won the award for "Best Web Services Solution". Other Adobe winners are Connect for "Best Collaboration Solution" and Captivate for "Best Corporate Learning Solution".
5 Comments
B
Brock Baxter
No doubt a coincidence that Adobe is one of the "members" of the siia (the ones who underwrite the "contest").
See here: http://www.siia.net/membership/siia_directory/search.asp -- search for yourself
Believe me, I love CF8, but I can't help but feel these types of "competitions" are really thinly disguised marketing efforts, and will be easily viewed as such and discredited in the industry-at-large.
In fact, after checking the SIIA site, they openly publish the process and actua;l judges oif each category (no one from Adobe is listed):
http://www.siia.net/codies/2008/judging_judges.asp
The overall process is here:
http://www.siia.net/codies/2008/rules.asp
Damon
Brock, to the best of my knowledge, we (the CF team and Adobe) had nothing to do with the selection process whatsoever.
That kind of like saying that it's a rigged deal that the Toy Story movie won an Oscar because Disney is a member of the Motion Picture Association and sponsor of the Oscars.
ColdFusion 8 is great software from a great and passionate team, and having seen what heart and soul they poured into it and the results they achieved, I think they should be very proud and deserve every kudos they receive.
My 2c
Damon
5 Comments
Leave a Comment