The Supplest development team has been awarded with prizes
in numerous occasions in international software development contests.
In the sixth edition of Windows World Open, held in Atlanta, USA,
in April 1997, the team was finalist in the ‘Process Control
Systems’ category, with an application aimed at the clinical
and administrative management for a network of biochemical laboratories.
In 1998, it won the first prize in the ‘Communications’
category in the seventh edition of Windows World Open, held at Comdex
Spring ’98 in Chicago, USA. The awarded application –LT
Broadcast System- defeated the other two finalists, DigitalXpress
(a Boeing subsidiary) y Southern New England Telecommunications
Corp.
It was the first time that an Argentine company won this contest,
which is considered the most important in the world concerning Windows
platform development, and whose prizes are personally handed by
Bill Gates.
Companies and Institutions like Hewlett Packard, BankBoston, Merrill
Lynch, First National Bank of Chicago, US Navy, Chevron, Andersen
Consulting, BASF, Intel, Continental Airlines, among others, were
usual participants in this contest.