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by the SQL Server Magazine editors
SQL Server Magazine's annual Editors' Best and Community Choice award programs offer a unique way to recognize the hottest products among the past year's offerings. Choosing favorites from such a competitive field- -noi ?? menfion in ilie midst of such i financially unstable nuirket - can be a challenge, but this year's winners show an uncommon breadth of functionality and originality.
Our Editors' Best program highlights products that SQL Server Magazine editors and contributors believe are worthy of recognition, whereas our Community Choice program lets our readers decide which products are the best. As we did last year- rather than presenting a predefined list of products and services that limited your selection to our choices- we opened up the Community Choice nomination process Io all, We let you nominate your favorite products and services, built the voting survey from there, and let everyone participate in the final voting phase. Kor the Gold winners of both Editors' Best and Community Choice, we even reached out lo readers and spoke For them about how the product or service helps them do their job. We spoke to real users about real experiences, and we hope these testimonials benefit you in your environment.
In these pages, you'll find our Gold. Silver, and Bronze Editors" Best winners in each category directly adjacent to our Community Choice winners. Sometimes our editors and readers have agreed on favorite producís and services in a given category, but more often they haven't. Do you agree with the choices our editors have made? Or do the picks that our readers have made carry more weight? Let us know! Regardless of whether these winners were chosen by editors or readers, you can be sure that all these products are worthy of serious consideration if you're in the market for a new tool.
The polls have closed!
Here are your- and ourfavorite products of the year
Best Backup and Recovery Software Product
Editors' Best
Gold: LiteSpeed for SQL Server 6.0 * Quest Software * www.qucst.com
Silver: SQL safe backup 6.4 * Idera * www.idera.com
Bronze: Replay for SQL 4 * AppAssure * www.appassure.com
Why It Won: LiteSpeed for SQL Server sets a high bar for SQL Server backup products because...