Vyatta Wins 2008 InfoWorld BOSSIE Award for Best Open Source Software

Belmont, CA – 2008-08-07 05:00:00 – Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced it has been honored by IDG’s InfoWorld with a 2008 Bossie Award for its open routing, firewall, and VPN software.

 

"The recognition from InfoWorld underscores that Vyatta is among the 'best of the best' open solutions that are providing new choices for customers, and disrupting traditional markets as a result," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. "Growth in customer adoption and the community, as well as industry recognition validate the flexibility, choice, and value that Vyatta brings to the networking market."

 

"The breadth and quality of open source software continues to amaze us," notes Doug Dineley, Executive Editor of the InfoWorld Test Center. "We've singled out 60 products for Bossies -- developer tools, middleware, firewalls and routers, productivity apps, CRM and ERP, etc. -- and we're only scratching the surface. When you look at all that's available, and how good it is, you start to think that someday all software will be open."

 

InfoWorld's annual Bossies recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done. The 2008 Bossie winners include products in eight categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage.

 

InfoWorld Media Group helps IT solutions management choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for maximum business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, social media, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

 

Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based, open-source, network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security feature set capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta. For more information, please visit http://www.vyatta.com.

 

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Melissa Neumann

Eastwick Communications

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melissa@eastwick.com

 

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