Government Computer News Announces GCN's Best of FOSE Awards Winners

WASHINGTON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- GCN's Best of FOSE Awards singled out the most innovative and well-designed new products at FOSE this year. A panel of Government Computer News and Washington Technology editors visited exhibitors' booths on the opening day of the FOSE show, Tuesday, April 5th, and on the following day, Wednesday, April 6th, the judges determined the winners. GCN's Lab Analysts, John Breeden II and Carlos Soto, awarded the winners their prizes at their booths and posed for photos.

Of the 12 winners, Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve 3400CL Series Switches won Best of Show. John Breeden II, Lab Director and Senior Technology Analyst for GCN said, "With a 10 Gigabyte backplane and 48 auto-speed-sensing ports, you can have every user on your network communicating at wire speed, even at peak network times."

Tom Temin, Editor-in-Chief, remarked on the variety and quality of this year's nominees: "Government customers want products that are secure, manageable, and solve problems. This year's crop of winners showed not just some remarkable innovation, but also a keen sense of the kinds of problems customers are trying to solve."

Government Computer News writers, editors, and lab experts discussed the winning technologies, as well as other new technologies on display at FOSE during a live taping in the radio booth on the show floor on Thursday, April 7th. The taped discussion will air Friday, April 8th on WFED Federal News Radio AM 1050. To obtain a copy of the show, visit http://www.federalnewsradio.com/ and click on the archive section. Right-click on the link and select "Save Target As." The entire show will download as a windows media file.

Below are the winning products and their categories for GCN's Best of FOSE 2005.

Product Company Product Category Telkonet PLC Telkonet Networking Hardware VoteFiler Comfidex Corporation Other Gateway 9415 Server Gateway Servers Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server Adobe Desktop System Software Comet12 Tadpole Computer, Portable PCs Inc. Intel Centrino Mobile Intel Portable PCs Technology Altova XML Spy 2005 Altova Desktop System Software TransPort X3100 MPC Portable PCs Apple Remote Desktop 2 Apple Enterprise System Software Kodak i660 Scanner Eastman Kodak Network Scanners HP XW 9300 Workstation Hewlett-Packard Desktop Computers HP Procurve 3400 CL Hewlett-Packard Networking Hardware Series Switches About Government Computer News

Government Computer News is the leading newsmagazine in the government IT market. GCN reaches program managers, technology managers and agency executives with decision-making authority. Published 30 times a year and founded in 1982, each issue features special reports, case studies and analysis, product reviews and buyer's guides.

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