OpenLaszlo wins Infoworld BOSSIE award for Best of open source in software development 2007
We are thrilled to announce that OpenLaszlo has won InfoWorld’s BOSSIE award, which selects “the best of open source software for the enterprise.� OpenLaszlo has been named "Best of Open Source Software" within the Software category.
OpenLaszlo - formerlery known as the Laszlo Presentation Server - was open sourced in October 2004 by Laszlo, the creator of the OpenLaszlo technology. What was considered to be a risky move by outsiders back then might now be viewed as one of the best closed-to-open success stories, according to Infoworld.
“Some products that were once exclusively commercial got religion, or had it thrust upon them, and re-emerged as open source. OpenLaszlo, a multi-platform rich Web application solution, may be the best closed-to-open success story. Laszlo Systems’ open source conversion unquestionably put the company in the right place at the right time, adding orders of magnitude to its installed base and even setting the stage for Adobe’s incremental opening of its crown jewel Flash and Flex technologies.�
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The ever growing global OpenLaszlo community covering five continents gives proof not only to the technical maturity of OpenLaszlo as a platform but to the acceptance of OpenLaszlo as a true open source technology.
The choice in RIAs comes down to Adobe Flex and OpenLaszlo, and several factors tip the scales toward OpenLaszlo. Flex is still not fully operating as an open source project, and lacks the kind of community at OpenLaszlo. OpenLaszlo skills are easy to find, and its code base is stable, mature, and tested.
The OpenLaszlo team and Laszlo Systems want to thank our community members at this point. There has been an incredibly positive feedback since 2004, a lot of understanding when things took a bit longer than we thought and and much, much positive energy flowing around OpenLaszlo. The BOSSIE award goes not only to Laszlo and the OpenLaszlo team but to all friends, contributors, committers and developers involved with the OpenLaszlo project.
The idea of open source and an open development process appeals to many people in a world dominated by huge corporations and their products. But our success wouldn't be possible without the effort of everyone working at Laszlo embracing the idea of an open source RIA platform. Without the commercial success story of Laszlo there would be no OpenLaszlo success story.