SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's SOA awards will be given in 19 categories and the award-winning products and services will be selected by SOA World Magazine readers. Winners will be announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East, June 23-24 in New York City.

Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions.

  Nominated Products and Services by Category: 

Best App Server

Best Automation Tool

Best BPM Engine

Best Framework

Best IDE

Best Integration Tool

Best Legacy Adapter

Best Open Source SOA Tool

Best Portal Platform

Best Security Solution

Best SOA or XML Site

Best SOA or XML Training

Best SOA Platform

Best SOA Testing Tool

Best SOA Tool

Best SOA/Web Services Book

Best Web Services Utility

Best XML Database

Best XML Parser