We've all seen the product demos, but how well do these solutions really work? Readers' Choice answers that question.

Whether you realize it or not, you wrote this issue. The reason: the entire issue is dedicated to the products that you believe work well in your enterprise. All told 1,595 readers weighed in on 341 products and your votes helped us determine the 45 winners of the 2007 Readers' Choice awards.

Month in and month out we review newly released products in our Products section, and four times a year we provide a comparative review on a particular product set you may be considering to deploy. But with the Readers' Choice awards we're asking you to rate how well these products actually work in real-world heterogeneous environments.