Category: Return on Investment (ROI)
Company: Kroger - Entry Summary
Winner: Kroger Team
Vertical: Retail
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
JBoss ROI Innovation: Selected for building out a shared infrastructure (grid) system on JBoss AS that deploys the majority of their mission-critical applications, boosting overall capacity by 40% and saving Kroger over $100,000 in licensing costs and $400 per CPU in yearly maintenance costs.  

ROI Honorable Mentions:
Appear Networks AB - Entry Summary
Sarah Meck - Kista, Sweden
La Petite Academy - Entry Summary
Sherwin Lu - Chicago, Illinois

Category: Migration
Company: Stanislaus County Partnership with Atomogy Corporation - Entry Summary
Winners: Allen Gates, Hemang Vyas, Peter Araujo and Mike Baliel of Atomogy Corporation and Stanislaus County.
Vertical: Government
Location: Modesto, California
JBoss Migration Innovation: Selected for their successful migration of mission-critical law enforcement and public safety applications from COBOL on mainframe terminal-based systems to EJBs on JBoss AS, resulting in improved responsiveness and functionality, increased reliance on industry standards, reduced development and operational costs, and improved architectural flexibility and integration with other government agencies.

Migration Honorable Mentions:
Vodafone - Entry Summary
Frankie Ahrens,  Olga Maas,  Roger Stoffers - Maastricht, Netherlands
Daiwa Securities America - Entry Summary
Steve Dunstan - New York, NY
University of Utah Healthcare - Entry Summary
Kris Lundell - Salt Lake City, Utah

Category Winner: Service Oriented Architecture
Company: RLPTechnologies - Entry Summary
Winners: RLPTechnologies Team (see below)
Vertical: Technology
Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan
JBoss SOA Innovation: Selected for their use of JBoss AS and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform that has revolutionized how data is collected, enhanced and compiled to increase data-file processing performance by 70%, increase scalability by 400%, and enrich the timeliness, accuracy and quality of R.L. Polk’s data for the automotive industry.

RLPTechnologies Team: Manoj Bansal, Celeste Castello, Kiran Dattani, Mike Davis, Darrin Deeter, Louis Devaney, Rick Draper, Cornell Furtuna, Bill Frost, Indira Harracksingh, Kusunam Srinivas, Joe LaFeir, Norm Marks, Sergey Melnichenko, Kris Musial, Hans Mosher, Kunnummal Naheed, Kathy Northcutt, Prabakhar Ojha, Ivan Provalov, Lawrence Rama, Mike Reed, Gary Rosteck, Clara Sagan, Scott Thibodeau, Kathy Northcutt, Kevin Vasconi, Geoff Volpe, Lisa Wagner, Pei Zheng, Michelle Eissele, Gordon Watson

SOA Honorable Mentions:
Fiserv, CIR.  GalaxyPlus Credit Union Systems - Entry Summary
Jim Spicer, Sandeep Mohan – Troy, Michigan
Compucredit Corporation - Entry Summary
Cindy Hayden – Atlanta, GA

Category: Business Process Management
Company: Met@logo project “in cooperation with OpenPELGO” - Entry Summary
Winners: Benjamin Schmit, Ilka Buss and Hannes Karkowski, Nima Heschmat
Vertical: Government
Location: Eschborn, Germany
JBoss jBPM Innovation: Selected for using JBoss jBPM to aid local government agencies in Latin America to create eGovernment solutions that automate complex business processes and improve service to their constituents. 

Business Process Management Honorable Mentions:
RUNA Consulting Group - Entry Summary
Employees: Andrei Mikheev, Orlov Mikhail, Maxim Gordienko, Sergei Gritsenko, Vitaliy Semochkin - Moscow, Russian Federation
Open source community members: John van der Pol, Delkant, Ivan Florentin, Mikhail Golovanov, Miguel Koren, Martin Gaido - Worldwide
Smartmatic Corp. - Entry Summary
Eduardo Correia - Boca Raton, Florida

Category: New Generation Technology
Company: Lexicon Genetics - Entry Summary
Winners: Buckley Kohlhauff, Mark Ma, Jason Williams
Vertical: Biotechnology
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
JBoss New Generation Technology Innovation: Selected for their use of JBoss Seam to glue together Hibernate, JSF, EJB3, and JBoss jBPM to dramatically simplify their development process and create a robust platform that can deploy mission-critical applications for the Texas Institute of Genomic Medicine.

New Generation Honorable Mentions:
MIRO Technologies - Entry Summary
Paul Extance - La Jolla, California
Ready Technology Limited - Entry Summary
Daniel Pocock - London, United Kingdom

Category: Portal
Company: Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc. - Entry Summary
Winners: Brad Lindow & Jason Cohen
Vertical: Travel
Location: Chicago, IL
JBoss Portal Innovation: Selected for use of JBoss Portal to improve user experience, reduce transactions and reporting times, and reduce costs and overall development time in building myaccount.galileo.com, Cendant Travel Distribution Services’ portal was built to provide self service capabilities to thousands of travel agents and suppliers

Portal Honorable Mentions:
ADP - Entry Summary
Neeraj Tiwari & Bala Nagaraj - Roseland, New Jersey
Jahnvi Consultants - Entry Summary
Pushpendra N. Rawal - Ahmedabad, India

Category: Clustering
Company: J. Craig Venter Institute - Entry Summary
Winners: Winners: Pete Davies, Indresh Singh, Scott Collins, Tom Dolafi, Chris Lemieux, Sean Murphy, Adam Resnick, Angelo Trivelli, Bryan Yu, and Saul Kravitz
Vertical: Bio Engineering
Location: Rockville, MD
JBoss Clustering Innovation: Selected for use of JBoss messaging and clustering to provide the stability and scalability necessary to process in excess of 40 million traces in batch across an eight node cluster that supports over 100 DNA sequencers while also saving the not-for-profit genomic research center over $500,000 per year in licensing and maintenance costs.

Clustering Honorable Mentions:
Helsinki Institute of Physics, Technology Programme - Entry Summary
Mikko Pitkänen, Juho Karppinen - Geneva, Switzerland
Riptown.com Media - Entry Summary
Carl Schmidt - Vancouver, Canada
Tieline Research - Entry Summary
Leigh Carey, Joanne Church, Andy Clark,  Peter Fall, Luke Grose, Elester Johnson, Tobias Lauchenauer, Henry Lwin, Gareth Mahon, Alex Shaykevich, Anthony Sizer

Category: Persistence
Company: ADP - Entry Summary
Winners: Patrick Urban & Nicholas Whitehead
Vertical: Financial Services
Location: Roseland, New Jersey
JBoss Persistence Innovation: Selected for building an AJAX Adaptor for Hibernate that supplies AJAX clients with a rich and high performance data access API and for their use of Hibernate and other JEMS products to improve uptime and reduce cost of their EasyPayNet 5 and TeleNet 1.X Web-based payroll systems.

Persistence Honorable Mentions:
RUNA Consulting Group - Entry Summary
Employees: Andrei Mikheev, Orlov Mikhail, Maxim Gordienko, Sergei Gritsenko, Vitaliy Semochkin - Moscow, Russian Federation
Open source community members: John van der Pol, Delkant, Ivan Florentin, Mikhail Golovanov, Miguel Koren, Martin Gaido - Worldwide
Stefanini IT Solutions - Entry Summary
Mário Marcelo Guimarães Ribeiro - Curitiba, Brazil Category: Persistence

Category: Core Infrastructure
Company: Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc. - Entry Summary
Winners: Bryan Harwood & Chuck Clark
Vertical: Travel
Location: Chicago, Illinois
JBoss Core Infrastructure Innovation: Selected for their use of JBoss AS and its JMX capabilities as the foundation for their services container that allows them to provision core travel services more quickly and efficiently to a number of leading travel sites including Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com.

Core Infrastructure Honorable Mentions:
AutoSkill International Inc. - Entry Summary
Ravi Ramsaran - Ottawa, Canada
Broadmedia Technology Ltd. - Entry Summary
Matthew Planchant - North Shields, United Kingdom
Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics - Entry Summary
Eugene Clark - Cambridge, Mass.
Harte-Hanks - Entry Summary
Shell Sullivan - Austin, Texas
Kroger  - Entry Summary
Kroger team - Cincinnati, Ohio

Category: Certified Service Provider
Company: Amentra - Entry Summary
Winners: Amentra Team
Vertical: Technology
Location: VA
JBoss Certified Service Innovation: Selected for helping enterprises deploy mission-critical business systems on JEMS through a formal, experience-proven mentoring and software development program.

Category: Certified Solutions Provider
Company: DataSynapse, Inc. - Entry Summary
Winner: Jamie Bernardin
Vertical: Technology
Location: NY
JBoss Certified Solution Innovation: Selected for enabling enterprises to dynamically provision and execute virtual JBoss AS clusters resulting in maximized utilization capacity in the datacenter, improved application performance regardless of load, and alignment of business policy/SLAs with application execution.

Certified Solution Honorable Mentions:
DataDirect Technologies - Entry Summary
DataDirect Technologies Team - Bedford, Mass.
Quest Software, Inc. - Entry Summary
Nicole Tamms - Aliso Viejo, Calif.