After the heaviest voting in recent years -- and some tight contests -- readers have selected their choices for the 2009 Datamation Product of the Year Awards. The winners scored top honors in a broad array of tech categories, from Business Laptop to PC Security, from Enterprise Linux to Office Productivity software. Some categories saw the traditional favorite suffer an upset, like Virtualization software. Others, like Office Productivity software, saw the longtime favorite walk away with the prize (you only get one guess as to most popular Office suite). For each of the 37 finalists, though, being included in this contest is an honor. All the nominations came from Datamation readers, a diverse group of IT professionals with firsthand knowledge of these products, most of whom use these products everyday on the job. To be sure, it's the ten winners who can claim bragging rights. Datamation, founded in 1957 (publishing in print for its first 40 years), has hosted its annual Product of the Year Award contest for decades -- at one time readers mailed in their entries on 3x5 cards. Earning a spot on this longtime list is a feather in the cap for any tech vendor.