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Linux Journal in conjunction with IDG World Expo announced the winners of the Linux Journal Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld. The winners were recognized in a ceremony held at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco, August 14-17 at the Moscone Center. The Linux Journal Product Excellence Awards distinguish product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors and are divided into 13 categories, including an overall “Best of Show” award. “All of the judges were very impressed by the nominations we received, it was a very difficult decision. We’ve seen many new innovations, and improvements on old favorites,” commented Linux Journal Products Editor and Product Excellence Awards judge James Gray. “The open source community has been hard at work, and we’re pleased to have the opportunity to recognize the advancements being made.” The winners are as follows: BEST INTEGRATION SOLUTION NoMachine NX Server 2.0 BEST SYSTEM MANAGEMENT TOOLS Open Country OCM 3.1 BEST SECURITY SOLUTION Novell AppArmor BEST OPEN SOURCE SOLUTION Creative Commons ccHost BEST UTILITY GRID COMPUTING SOLUTION rPath rBuilder MOST INNOVATIVE HARDWARE SOLUTION Bivio 2000 BEST CLUSTERING SOLUTION Greenplum Bizgres MPP BEST VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTION IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization BEST APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM AND TOOL Trolltech Qtopia Phone Edition 4 BEST DATABASE SOLUTION EnterpriseDB Advanced Server BEST DESKTOP SOLUTION Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop BEST MESSAGING SOLUTION Zimbra Collaboration Suite BEST OF SHOW Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop