Jitterbit is “Boss” for Second Consecutive Year As It’s Named 2009 Best Open Source Software Winner

IDG’s InfoWorld Bossie Awards Recognize Top Open Source Awards for Enterprises

Oakland, Calif. – Sept. 1, 2009 – For the second consecutive year, Jitterbit, the leading provider of open source application and data integration software, has been recognized as a winner of InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software Awards in the “Best of Open Source Middleware and Platforms” category.

Known as the “Bossies,” the annual awards recognize the best open source software for business. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the 2009 Bossies celebrate the top 40 open source products for business and IT pros that offer the most promising and cost-effective products available to IT organizations.

Doug Dineley, executive editor at InfoWorld, in an article announcing the Bossie winners stated, “Jitterbit makes simple work of configuring source and target specifications with its form-based wizards. It may be the most uncomplicated tool available to get data from one place to another.”

The 2009 Bossie winners are recognized across four categories, covering development tools, enterprise software, networking, and platforms and middleware. The full award results are available at http://infoworld.com/d/open-source/best-open-source-software-awards-2009....

“We are delighted to be recognized by InfoWorld and named a Bossie winner for the second year in a row,” said Sharam Sasson, CEO of Jitterbit. “The award validates our strategy and reinforces why each year more and more organizations have come to rely on Jitterbit to quickly and easily solve complex integration issues.”

Offering easy, out-of-the-box integration to hundreds of enterprise applications and an intuitive drag-and-drop design, Jitterbit significantly speeds integration projects and reduces operational costs for Fortune 2000 customers. With Jitterbit, users and developers quickly and affordably connect customer data among a variety of sources and formats, such as local and hosted ERP and CRM applications, legacy systems, data warehouses and online marketplaces. Jitterbit simplifies the creation, deployment and maintenance of data and application integration both within and between more than 6,000 organizations, with customers representing some of the world’s largest companies and government agencies, including NASA, Continental Airlines and Balfour Beatty.

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