Sponsors for OSCON 2009

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
At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We are committed long-term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Microsoft's open source strategy is grounded in the recognition of the value of openness to working with others-including commercial open source vendors, developers and open source communities-to help customers and partners succeed in today's heterogeneous "world of choice."

Google
Google 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/

SourceForge.net
SourceForge.net is the world's largest open, collaborative platform enabling millions of open source fanatics to develop, code and distribute cutting edge, emerging technologies amongst a universal community of hobbyists, causal consumers and leading industry professioals seeking and evaluating softare solutions. Learn more at www.sourceforge.net

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.

Facebook
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people's lives and half of the users return daily. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

Gear6
Gear6 is the leading provider of scalable Memcached caching solutions that enable superior site, application and database scalability while reducing overall costs. Gear6 delivers the speed required by dynamic web applications to quickly serve millions of users. Our customers are leaders in media, social networking, and content aggregation. For more information, please visit www.gear6.com/webcache.

Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform, which presents a low-cost and flexible alternative to the proprietary video solutions in the market. With more than 20,000 active publishers including top corporations and brands, award-winning Kaltura is growing rapidly, with hundreds of new sites joining daily. Beyond catering directly to web publishers, Kaltura's open framework provides integrators and developers the ability to create custom video applications with minimal time and effort. The Platform also includes unique collaborative and interactive features that increase user engagement and time spent on site.

Liferay
Liferay, Inc. is a provider of leading portal and social collaboration products. Its flagship product, Liferay Portal, is the world's leading enterprise open source portal that powers major websites and applications for such companies as Lufthansa Flight Training, Borland, World Vision, and the French Ministry of Defense. Its newest product, Liferay Social Office, allows enterprise teams to dynamically share documents and collaborate using Web 2.0 and social computing tools in a secure enterprise environment and features integration with Microsoft Office®. Liferay, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Europe and Asia.

MindTouch
MindTouch 2009 is an open source enterprise collaboration and community platform that enables users to connect and remix enterprise systems, social tools and web services. MindTouch 2009 is recognized as the most sophisticated, popular, award-winning, enterprise-scale, open source collaboration solution in the market today. MindTouch 2009 is built with a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), enables users to connect teams, enterprise systems, publishing systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications to create unique content oriented experiences while maintaining IT governance. With millions of users, MindTouch is deployed by many large companies, including Microsoft, Fujitsu, Siemens, Intel, The Washington Post, and others.

MySpace.com
MySpace is a technology company connecting people through personal expression, content, and culture. MySpace empowers its global community to experience the Internet through a social lens by integrating personal profiles, photos, videos, mobile, messaging, games, and the world's largest music community. MySpace is a division of News Corporation.

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 that integrates a portfolio of IT management software to help customers worldwide reduce cost, complexity and risk. Our expanded vision of sponsoring leading free open source software projects is driving innovation for businesses to be more productive in their personal and team environments. To learn more, or to be part of one of these exciting communities, visit www.novell.com, www.kablink.org, www.openSUSE.org, www.mono-project.com, and www.ifolder.com.

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 Network is an intellectual property company that was formed to promote the Linux system by using patents to create a collaborative ecosystem.

Rackspace Cloud
The Rackspace Cloud provides scalable web, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support. Through an integrated suite of products - Cloud Sites, Cloud Servers and Cloud Files - The Rackspace Cloud enables users to trade the hassles of hardware for a worry-free hosting environment. Learn more at rackspacecoud.com.

Schooner Information Technology
Schooner Information Technology has pioneered a new generation of data access appliances specifically architected for Web 2.0 and cloud computing datacenters. Schooner appliances provide 8x performance improvements over traditional servers, with 1/8th the power and space requirements, 60% lower TCO, and 100% compatibility with existing Memcached and MySQL Enterprise™ deployments.

Silicon Mechanics
Silicon Mechanics is a leading manufacturer of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing clusters. Our products are supported by the best warranty offerings available, and backed by experts dedicated to excellence. Our unique website allows customers to easily configure hardware and evaluate their options. Visit www.siliconmechanics.com to custom-configure your system.

Symbian Foundation
The Symbian Foundation is an independent non-profit organization whose missions is to enable an ecosystem that collaborates to create the richest user experiences for mobile devices. Symbian maintains the code for an open source software platform based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces.

Twilio
Twilio provides a telephony infrastructure web service "in the cloud". With Twilio, developers can initiate and receive real-time phone calls using existing web application frameworks. Twilio's simple, powerful API minimizes the learning curve required to build advanced, reliable voice communications applications that solve critical business needs.

WSO2
WSO2 is the open source SOA company founded by pioneers in the Apache Software Foundation Web services community. The company delivers the only tightly integrated, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for SOA, including service creation, connection, composition and governance. WSO2 is a global company with office in the US, UK and Sri Lanka.

Yabarana Corporation
Inspired by the way indigenous tribes live in balance with nature, Yabarana Corporation operates in balance with the ecosystem from which it stems. Providing outstanding solutions worldwide, while giving back to the communities that make it all possible. Yabarana can help you take full advantage of this new business world.