Red Hat Innovation Awards to be held in September

Mumbai: Red Hat announced the launch of its third annual Innovation Awards to be presented at the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, co-located this year in Chicago from September 1-4, 2009. The Innovation awards were created to honor individuals and companies who have forged new ground to demonstrate innovative solutions through the use of Red Hat and JBoss products and technologies.

The awards will consist of six categories including: Management Excellence, Optimized Solutions,

Superior Alternatives, Extensive Ecosystem, Carved out Costs and Outstanding Open Source Architecture.

Nominations for each Innovation Award category will be judged by a panel of representatives and industry leaders including: Lee Congdon, CIO, Red Hat; Craig Muzilla, VP-Middleware Business, Red Hat; John R Rymer from Forrester Research; Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst, Interarbor; Jay Lyman from The 451 Group and Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Editor-in-Chief, Practical Technology.

"Delivering creative technology innovations and solutions, especially given the economic climate today, is vital to an organization's growth and success," said Congdon. "I'm looking forward to learning how our partners and customers have leveraged JBoss and Red Hat solutions to optimize their IT infrastructure and stay ahead of the curve."

The 2009 Innovation Awards will be presented during the co-located Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, and submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2009. Five categories will each recognize two winning submissions, one from Red Hat and one from JBoss, and the Outstanding Open Source Architecture category will recognize one winner who is deploying both Red Hat and JBoss solutions. From these category winners, a Red Hat Innovator of the Year and a JBoss Innovator of the Year will be selected by the community through online voting and announced at the awards ceremony.