ComponentSource Announces 2009-2010 Awards Winners

ATLANTA, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- ComponentSource®, the world's largest marketplace and community for reusable software components and development tools today announced their latest Awards for 2009-2010 for both leading publishers and their individual products.  

The awards will be given to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers and the Top 100 Bestselling Products, based on the total sales dollar value of orders placed by customers during the year (2009) through ComponentSource.

The awards will be for the:

• Top 100 ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher Awards – 2009-2010
• Top 100 ComponentSource Bestselling Product Awards – 2009-2010

"ComponentSource passed some very significant milestones in 2009.  We were very proud to have passed the 1 million registered user mark, and we have now sold products in over 175 countries worldwide.  These milestones show the continued importance of the ComponentSource on-line catalog, and our printed catalog as the world's best source of information on the full market for commercial quality software components and development tools.  We are pleased to announce the fourth annual winners of our Awards program to help our customers assess and differentiate products, while at the same time rewarding our leading product publishers for their successes," explained the ComponentSource CEO, Sam Patterson.

"These awards are based on real orders placed with us by customers, they represent the true global commercial software component and development tool marketplace survey for 2009-2010," added Sam Patterson, CEO of ComponentSource, "We continued to receive feedback from our customers that the ComponentSource Bestselling Product and Publisher Awards help them further understand how the components and tools that they are evaluating or purchasing are valued and purchased by their peers."

ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher Award Winners for 2009-2010

ComponentSource is delighted to announce the following awards to our leading publishers for sales made to our customers during 2009:

Top 5 Bestselling Publisher Awards for 2009-2010

1. Developer Express - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 1 Publisher Award
2. Infragistics - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 2 Publisher Award
3. GrapeCity (includes Data Dynamics & FarPoint Tech.) - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 3 Publisher Award
4. Flexera Software (formerly Acresso Software) - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 4 Publisher Award
5. Telerik - Top 5 Publisher Award & # 5 Publisher Award

Top 10 Bestselling Publisher Awards for 2009-2010 (sorted alphabetically)

• Altova - Top 10 Publisher Award
• Aspose - Top 10 Publisher Award
• ComponentOne - Top 10 Publisher Award
• Janus Systems - Top 10 Publisher Award
• JetBrains - Top 10 Publisher Award

Top 25 Bestselling Publisher Awards for 2009-2010 (sorted alphabetically)

• /n software - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Accusoft Pegasus (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp) - Top 25 Publisher Award
• AG-TECH (Japan) - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Dundas Data Visualization (formerly Dundas Software) - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Change Vision - Top 25 Publisher Award
• InfoSoft Global - Top 25 Publisher Award
• LEAD Technologies - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Micro Focus - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Red Gate Software - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Software FX - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Symantec (formerly Altiris/Wise Solutions) - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Syncfusion - Top 25 Publisher Award
• The Imaging Source - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Visual Software - Top 25 Publisher Award
• Xceed Software - Top 25 Publisher Award

See the Full Top 100 Publisher Award List:

http://www.componentsource.com/services/publisher/awards-2009-2010-publisher.html

ComponentSource Bestselling Product Award Winners for 2009-2010

ComponentSource is delighted to announce the following awards for our leading products for sales made to our customers during 2009:

Top 5 Bestselling Product Awards for 2009-2010

1. DXperience by Developer Express - Top 5 Product Award & # 1 Product Award
2. InstallShield Professional by Flexera Software - Top 5 Product Award & # 2 Product Award
3. NetAdvantage for .NET by Infragistics - Top 5 Product Award & # 3 Product Award
4. Telerik Premium Collection for .NET by Telerik - Top 5 Product Award & # 4 Product Award
5. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise by ComponentOne - Top 5 Product Award & # 5 Product Award

Top 10 Bestselling Product Awards for 2009-2010

1. NetAdvantage for Select by Infragistics - Top 10 Product Award
2. ActiveReports for .NET by GrapeCity (formerly Data Dynamics) - Top 10 Product Award
3. DXperience WinForms by Developer Express - Top 10 Product Award
4. Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX by Telerik - Top 10 Product Award
5. ActiveReports 6 by GrapeCity (formerly Data Dynamics) - Top 10 Product Award

Top 25 Bestselling Product Awards for 2009-2010

1. AdminStudio Professional by Flexera Software (formerly Acresso Software) - Top 25 Product Award
2. NetAdvantage for Win Client by Infragistics - Top 25 Product Award
3. Janus WinForms Controls Suite by Janus Systems - Top 25 Product Award
4. Spread for Windows Forms by GrapeCity (formerly FarPoint Technologies) - Top 25 Product Award
5. Aspose.Total by Aspose - Top 25 Product Award
6. ReSharper by JetBrains - Top 25 Product Award
7. TX Text Control .NET Enterprise by The Imaging Source - Top 25 Product Award
8. NetAdvantage for Web Client by Infragistics - Top 25 Product Award
9. DXperience ASP.NET by Developer Express - Top 25 Product Award
10. ComponentOne Studio for WinForms by ComponentOne - Top 25 Product Award
11. Dundas Chart for ASP.NET Enterprise by Dundas Data Visualization - Top 25 Product Award
12. XMLSpy Professional by Altova - Top 25 Product Award
13. astah* professional (formerly JUDE Professional) by Change Vision - Top 25 Product Award
14. InstallAnywhere Enterprise by Flexera Software (formerly Acresso Software) - Top 25 Product Award
15. Pcl2pdf by Visual Software - Top 25 Product Award

See the Full Top 100 Product Award List:

http://www.componentsource.com/services/publisher/awards-2009-2010-product.html

Note to Editors:

Bestselling Products Awards

The products have each been allocated a Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, Top 50 or Top 100 Bestselling Product Award for 2009 based on the following ranking criteria:

• total sales in US Dollars (USD) order value for the individual product
• less any refunds made to customers due to issues with the product
• for sales made to our customers in over 175 countries worldwide
• between the dates 1st Jan 2009 to 31st Dec 2009 inclusive
• sales made in non-USD currencies have been converted into USD to get a total value
• the list has then been sorted and the awards made based on the ranking achieved
• the awards were announced in March 2010, based on sales made in 2009, hence the name 2009-2010

Bestselling Publisher Awards

The publishers have each been allocated a Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, Top 50 or Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award for 2009 based on the following ranking criteria:

• total sales USD order value for all the individual products in their range aggregated together
• less any refunds made to customers due to issues with their products
• for sales made to our customers in over 175 countries worldwide
• between the dates 1st Jan 2009 to 31st Dec 2009 inclusive
• sales made in non-USD currencies have been converted into USD to get a total value
• the list has then been sorted and the awards made based on the publisher ranking achieved
• the awards were announced in March 2010, based on sales made in 2009, hence the name 2009-2010

About ComponentSource

ComponentSource is the world's largest marketplace and community for reusable software components for all platforms. The respected barometer for the component industry, ComponentSource pioneered the open market for reusable software components in 1995, and continues to drive the market through its award-winning e-business model and groundbreaking work to establish the first widely accepted reusable component standard. A global e-business with customers in over 175 countries, ComponentSource is headquartered in Atlanta, GA United States and has offices in Reading, England and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit http://www.componentsource.com or http://www.componentsource.co.jp

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