InfoWorld has performed its annual ritual and presented the Best Open Source Software Awards, the Bossies, selecting the "best open source software for business" in four categories – applications, developer tools, platforms and middleware, and networking tools. And I look at the list in wonder.

Take the business applications: Awards went to the OpenBravo ERP suite, the SugarCRM CRM solution, the Pentaho BI software, the Alfresco and LogicalDoc document management systems, the Drupal, WordPress and Tiki Wiki content management systems, and the Solr search engine.

What is striking is that they are all well-known contenders. Five of the nine award-winning applications – OpenBravo, SugarCRM, Pentaho, Drupal and WordPress – were already given an award in 2009, and a sixth – Alfresco – already received the InfoWorld award in 2008. Tiki Wiki will soon celebrate its tenth anniversary, while LogicalDoc succeeds the far-from-fresh Contineo document management system. And the Lucene-based Solr, which has been an Apache project since 2006, is actually more of a developer tool.

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