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|  | <h1>NetBeans Wins Jolt Awards</h1> | 
|  | <i>March 22, 2007</i><br> | 
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|  | NetBeans was a multiple winner at the <a | 
|  | href="http://www.joltawards.com/2007/">17th Annual Jolt Product | 
|  | Excellence Awards</a> ceremony which was held last night at the SD West | 
|  | Conference in Santa Clara, California.<br> | 
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|  | The NetBeans 5.5 IDE picked up an award for Best Development | 
|  | Environment, and the NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.5 and the NetBeans Visual | 
|  | Web Pack both received Community Awards for mobile development and web | 
|  | development respectively.<br> | 
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|  | Jeetendra Kaul, Vice President of Developer Products and Programs for Sun | 
|  | Microsystems, accepted the awards on behalf of NetBeans and thanked | 
|  | Jolt judges and the software industry for acknowledging NetBeans at an | 
|  | opportune time, citing the company's growth in the past two years with | 
|  | over 13 million downloads, a half-million mailing list subscribers and | 
|  | more than 100 partners.<br> | 
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|  | In his acceptance speech, Kaul focused on attributes that have won | 
|  | NetBeans and its products praise from critics and acceptance within the | 
|  | developer community. He touched on the IDE's all-in-one functionality | 
|  | for mobile, web and enterprise application development; NetBeans's continuing | 
|  | leadership in the area of Java EE 5 support and most recently for Ruby, and | 
|  | more. <br> | 
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|  | “Improving developer productivity through innovation is clearly a | 
|  | winner,” he said.<br> | 
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|  | Regarded as the “Oscars” of the software industry, the Jolt Awards | 
|  | recognize software products, books, and websites that have achieved | 
|  | excellence in the areas of functionality, usability, problem-solving | 
|  | and innovation. <br> | 
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|  | The NetBeans Mobility Pack was a <a | 
|  | href="http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/187900423?pgno=11">2005 | 
|  | Productivity Award</a> winner. | 
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|  | <h4>Recent Awards for NetBeans</h4> | 
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|  | <a | 
|  | href="http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/01/25-2007_technology-3.html"> | 
|  | Java IDE Innovator, InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards</a> <br> | 
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|  | <a | 
|  | href="http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/2006_java_technology_winners_a.html"> | 
|  | Java IDE Winner, O'Reilly's ONJava.com 2006 Java Technology Awards</a> <br> | 
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|  | <a href="https://netbeans.org/about/press/awards.html">More Awards</a><br> | 
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|  | <h4>Recent Reviews for NetBeans</h4> | 
|  | <br> | 
|  | <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2047273,00.asp">"Never | 
|  | Been Better"</a> (eweek.com)<br> | 
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|  | <a href="http://javaboutique.internet.com/reviews/netbeans55/"> | 
|  | NetBeans 5.5: Java IDE Comes into Its Own</a> (Java Boutique)<br> | 
|  | <br> | 
|  | <a href="https://netbeans.org/about/press/reviews.html">More Reviews</a><br> | 
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