The SD Times 100 is about innovation and leadership. While every project and organization on the list meets those criteria, there are a few that, through the work they accomplished in 2010, were able to shift an entire industry toward a platform, methodology or emerging standard. This list includes many of the major players in software development, as one would expect, as well as a few newcomers.
- Agile Alliance
- Apache Foundation
- Apple
- Eclipse Foundation
- Free Software Foundation
- HTML5 Project
- IBM
- Intel
- Linux Foundation
- Microsoft
- Oracle
- W3C
