The 7th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards proudly announces this year's winners.
Things certainly have changed since we announced the winners of the first eWEEK Excellence Awards seven years ago.
The challenges and problems facing IT today require new capabilities and greater integration functionality than was the case in 2000.
The Boys & Girls Clubs are winners, too. Click here to read why.
Back then, companies felt that they had finally grasped the whole business on the Web thing, not knowing that they would, in a few years, have to deal with a 2.0 version of the Web. And while we watched the death of the old ASP (application service provider)-hosted model, few of us realized that it would come back with a vengeance as on-demand and SAAS (software as a service).
But some things never change, such as the constant struggle to keep IT resources secure from external threats or the need to put solid computing tools in the hands of workers.
Click here for a complete list of the 2006 eWEEK Excellence Awards winners.

The seventh eWEEK Excellence Award winners come from longtime titans of technology as well as small upstarts using open-source technologies. But all the winners are the same in that they are providing the ingenuity and features that businesses need to stay on the cutting edge.
The seventh annual Excellence Awards program was open to any enterprise technology product announced in 2006 and released before the end of the first quarter of 2007. The eWEEK editorial staff judged the entries.
Who is the 2007 eWEEK Excellence Awards overall winner? Find out here.
Were pleased to offer readers this annual guide to excellence, including the winners and finalists in all categories:
Analytics & Reporting
Application Development
Business Integration Systems
Business Relationship Management
Desktop & Mobile Hardware
E-Business Foundations
E-Mail Management & Security
Enterprise Collaboration
Enterprise Storage Hardware
Enterprise Storage Software
IT Quality Assurance Tools
Productivity Applications
Server Hardware
Networking & Management Tools
Networking Infrastructure
System & Application Management
Authentication & User Management
Network Data-Stream Protection
Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation