11 Aug 1998
Computing?s Awards for Excellence will this year celebrate the magazine?s 25th anniversary by recognising great achievements in IT.
This year?s winners were selected by a readers? poll from shortlists drawn up by a panel of experts. Voting closed last month and the winners will be announced in October.
The contenders for the achievement award in software innovation are the Java and Cobol programming languages, IBM?s ground-breaking relational database System R, Lotus? Notes groupware, and IBM?s CICS transactional monitor.
System R was an IBM database system built at the San Jose research Centre ? now known as the Almaden research centre.
The common business-oriented language, or Cobol, is the world?s most widely-used business computer language, and remains the most durable language for business computing.
The awards will be presented in October at a gala dinner in London. BBC broadcaster Desmond Lynam will compere the event.
To attend the awards or to get more information, contact Monica Thomas on (0171) 316 9170 or monica_thomas@vnu.co.uk
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