Our Bronze Award goes to the Novell exteNd Suite 5.2, a comprehensive suite for the development and deployment of service-oriented applications. The suite features drag-and-drop tools that make it easier for enterprise developers to integrate legacy systems and applications using Web services. Other key features include:

• Express Portal. A pre-configured portal application with more than seventy-five out-of-the box portlets
• Enterprise Content Management and workflow. User interfaces and out-of-the-box components to simplify the task of securely delivering the right content to the right user.
• Business Process Management. The Business Process Management feature allows users to automate manual processes.
• Intelligent search. exteNd includes intelligent search technology that allows users to perform queries against repository meta data to find relevant documents.

The product shipped June 30, 2004. List price for Novell exteNd begins at $50,000 per CPU. Multiple licensing options and volume discounts can apply.

Catherine Ketcher