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Intel
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel Software provides resources, technologies; products and services developers need to create innovative products and
industry-leading software solutions with enhanced business value that are designed to run best on Intel platforms. Intel has been actively innovating with the open source community and collaborates with commercial vendors to develop Linux and other turnkey OSS solutions. Additional info on Intel, Intel Software and our open source activities is available at: www.intel.com/opensource
Microsoft
Microsoft is a worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft offers a wide range of innovative products and services designed to help individuals and organizations realize their full potential. Through efforts like Port 25, Codeplex and Shared Source, Microsoft is focused on a broad range of choices for developing and deploying software, including open source approaches and applications.
Google
Google's is a proud user and supporter of open source software and
development methodologies. Google contributes back to the Open Source
community in many ways, including source code,
project hosting on Google Code, projects for students including Google
Summer of Code and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, and
support for a wide variety of projects, LUGS, and events around the
world. Learn more at code.google.com/opensource/
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems has held open systems to be the cornerstone of its business philosophy since the beginning. From desktops to supercomputers, and from development tools to productivity suites, Sun is dedicated to delivering hardware and software based on open industry standards. Today, through shared technology innovation, Sun's continued commitment to Open Source is reflected in its leadership and key contributions to the many projects including OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Grid Engine, java.net, Jini, JXTA, NetBeans, and Mozilla.
BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services.
Open source software and solutions are adopted widely throughout BT and in products provided to our business and consumer customers.
IBM
At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide. Our WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli, Rational, Information Management and Modular Systems brands are aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation.
IBM helps solve its clients' most intractable business and competitive problems by engaging its depth of insight on connecting operating systems, business processes, and technology seamlessly.
Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Zimbra
Zimbra provides open source collaboration and messaging software for enterprises, service providers, educational institutions, and government agencies. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite features an AJAX-based Administrative user interface and browser based client to dramatically improve the messaging and collaboration experience. Zimbra supports Windows, Apple, and Linux desktops; works with Microsoft Outlook as well as mobile devices including the Blackberry, Treo and Motorola Q; and server operating systems Red Hat, Mac, Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora and more.
Atlassian Software Systems
Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Products include Confluence, recognized as the most widely-used enterprise wiki, and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. The company has 10,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations.
Disney
The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) offers a compelling mix of interactive entertainment and information content and services for Internet and mobile devices for audiences around the world. WDIG's suite of properties includes Disney.com and mDisney mobile entertainment, FamilyFun.com, Movies.com, Wondertime.com and the Disney Mobile phone service. WDIG also provides strategic leadership, business execution support and a world-class technology platform for all the Walt Disney Company Internet properties, including category leaders ABC.com, ESPN.com and ABCNEWS.com.
EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB is the world's leading provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. The company's Postgres Plus products are ideally suited for enterprise applications requiring lightning-fast performance, near-linear scalability, 99.99% availability, and rock-solid security, supporting complex transactions and the ability to replicate data across the globe.
Etelos
Etelos is revolutionizing the way Web-based applications are developed, distributed and consumed by providing on-demand, customizable browser-based applications on the hosting environment you choose.The Etelos Ecosystem provides all of the features of Software as a Service (SaaS) with all the flexibility of custom development.
Ingres
Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Ingres combines proven reliability and outstanding support with the value and flexibility of open source. For more on the company and its leadership in open source, please go to www.ingres.com.
JasperSoft
Jaspersoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI).
With more than two million downloads worldwide and more than 5,000
commercial customers in 81 countries, JasperSoft offers the most widely
used open source BI software in the world. The JasperSoft Business
Intelligence Suite is comprised of an interactive reporting server,
graphical and ad hoc report design interfaces, OLAP analysis, and a Java
reporting library for scalable small, medium, and large enterprises, for
use as either stand-alone or embedded BI applications. More information is
available at www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.
Kablink
Kablink is a scalable collaboration platform for social networking and productive teamwork. Any user can instantly start a "team" to create, manage, share and discuss ideas, or create workflows and mashups. Kablink includes blogs, wikis, calendars, tasks, document management, live conferencing and instant messaging. Join the next generation of enterprise social networking.
Linagora
LINAGORA Group - A fast
growing company, End 2007 : 110+ employees, 8, 5+ M revenue, End 2008 : 200 + employees, 15+ M expected A unique full
range of software and services Software Edition - OSSA ("Open Source Software Assurance") - Training - Professional
Services A becoming global actor - In 2007 : France (Paris, Toulouse, Lyon) - In 2008 : Belgium (July 2008) + US office
(H1 2008) Our ambition is to be a global actor of OSS.
MindTouch
MindTouch Deki Wiki is a free open source wiki and application platform for communities and enterprises. Deki Wiki is an easy to use and sophisticated wiki for authoring, aggregating, organizing, and sharing content. Deki Wiki is also a platform for creating collaborative applications, or adding wiki capabilities to existing applications.
Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla is a global community dedicated to building free, open source products and technologies that improve the online experience for people everywhere. We work in the open with a highly disciplined, transparent and cooperative development process, under the umbrella of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. As a wholly owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation organizes the development and marketing of Mozilla products. This unique structure has enabled Mozilla to financially support and cultivate competitive, viable community innovation.
Novell, Inc.
Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. We deliver the best-engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that help businesses worldwide reduce cost, complexity and risk.
Novell Making IT Work As OneT
Open Invention Network
Open source software development has been one of the greatest sources of innovation. It has reduced costs, improved functionality and spurred new industries. In particular, the Linux community has been able to make tremendous strides in improving the customer experience because developers can take what has been written and build on it - without having to develop the same base of software code building-blocks from scratch.
In order to continue this rapid pace of innovation, a refined model of intellectual property management has been established. Open Invention NetworkSM is an intellectual property company that was formed to promote the Linux system by using patents to create a collaborative ecosystem.
OpSource
OpSource™ provides a complete Web operations solution for the delivery of software-as-a-service applications, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource provides its customers with everything necessary but the application itself, and is the only Web operations company that offers "pay-as-you-grow" success based pricing.
RightScale
RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, provides a web-based cloud management platform and support services. Our system enables companies to quickly create Web solutions running on http://aws.amazon.com the Amazon cloud that are scalable, reliable, easy to manage, and affordable.
Silicon Mechanics
Silicon Mechanics is a leading manufacturer of rackmount servers and
storage solutions with one of the most comprehensive, open, industry-standard product offerings available. We work collaboratively with customers deploying datacenter installations, taking into consideration density, power, thermal efficiency, performance, and
reliability to create best-fit solutions for each customer.
*Visit our booth or www.siliconmechanics.com* to learn how to custom-configure a system for any computing environment.
Tenth Planet
To help Global Partners & Customer win in an Open Source world Tenth Planet
defines,designs and delivers Web 2.0 enabled business solutions. We also
provide a
complete range of services by leveraging our opensource skill on various
ERP, ECM,
CRM, and eCommerce products. Our service offerings on opensource span
Implementation,
Customization, Extension, Integration, maintenance, re-engineering, KPO and
BPO.
We take pride in building strategic long-term client partnerships
Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company, operating in 20 global markets, providing ticket sales, ticket resale services, marketing and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com one of the largest e-commerce sites on the Internet; approximately 6,500 retail outlets; and 20 worldwide call centers. Ticketmaster celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006 and currently serves more than 9,000 clients worldwide across multiple event categories, providing exclusive ticketing services for hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, museums, and theaters. In 2006, the company sold more than 128 million tickets valued at over $7 billion on behalf of its clients. Ticketmaster is headquartered in West Hollywood, California.
Voiceroute
Voiceroute is an open source enterprise software company behind Druid,
the world's leading Unified Communications platform for collaborative business productivity enhancing desktop-mobile-web applications. Druid is the world's leading Open Source
IP telephony and messaging application that unifies plug and play IP telephony, Instant Messaging, mobile phone (Blackberry & iPhone), faxing and other communications media in an easy to deploy and intuitive platform. Key customers include Fortune 1000 enterprises as
well as small medium businesses, VOIP service providers, government and higher education institutions. Druid
is open sourced under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
White Oak Technologies, Inc.
White Oak Technologies, Inc. (WOTI) is a boutique provider of custom developed software. We specialize in very high performance parallel architectures that scale to truly massive data sizes. WOTI is looking to hire best-of-best developers to join our team which has offices in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. Please visit our table at OSCON to learn more about these opportunities.
XAware
XAware is the first company to provide a comprehensive open source data integration solution for creating composite data services. XAware provides users with the ability to rapidly access and integrate data with applications and business processes. Furthermore, XAware makes it possible to transform data, regardless of the source, into reusable components for SOA and Web 2.0 applications.
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