Zope is a finalist for best software product of the year in the "Language and Development Environments" category of this year's Software Development Jolt Awards. Other finalists are JBuilder, Perl Builder, PHP, WebGain Studio, and Weblogic EJB Server. The Jolt Awards were launched in 1999 by yours truly when I was editor of Computer Language Magazine and were the first awards for the software development tools industry. Philippe Kahn (once head of Borland) said that the can of Jolt Cola embedded in a block of lucite is the only award that matters in the programming industry.

Anyhow, I'm one of the judges, as are Scott Ambler (scott@ambysoft.com), Andy Barnhart (arbarnhart@aol.com), Hugh Bawtree (bawtree@sunwave.net), Andrew Binstock (alb@pacificdataworks.com), Dana Cline (dana@logicsmith.com), Gary Evans (gkevans@evanetics.com), Warren Keuffel (wkeuffel@acm.org), Chris Minnick (cminnick@minnickweb.com), Guy Scharf (guy@guyscharf.com), and Alan Zeichick (zeichick@acm.org). Let the lobbying begin!