Sponsors for OSCON 2010

Intel
Intel's Open Source commitment runs deep. We offer deep technical expertise to the ecosystem, making contributions that enhance the performance, stability, and security of Open Source software. We also initiate communities like MeeGo.com and LessWatts.org that help foster innovation, and we participate in standards bodies to help move the industry forward. Because commercial products based on Open Source are an important part of the ecosystem, Intel works with those providers to optimize their solutions for the latest hardware features. As a result, end customers all over the world look to Intel® architecture as the platform of choice for Open Source solutions. Learn more at oss.intel.com.

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/

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.

Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting is the world's leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support (r) to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com or call 1-800-961-4454.

(mt) Media Temple, Inc.
(mt) Media Temple, Inc. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses around the world with reliable, professional-class services to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich Internet content. The team is comprised of 150+ incredibly smart and friendly employees who help create an award-winning culture. (mt) is an always-on company (24/7/365) with a U.S. based support department serving customers in over 60+ countries.

ActiveState
ActiveState, the dynamic language experts, is the world leader in enabling companies to develop, manage, and distribute applications with dynamic languages. With a focus on Perl, Python, Tcl and web languages, over 2 million developers and 97% of the Fortune 1000 rely on ActiveState, including many major technology, finance, aerospace, and government organizations.

CommonPlaces
CommonPlaces e-Solutions (commonplaces.com) provides open source strategy and Web development services for member-driven businesses and organizations. With 12 years of development integration, and data collaboration experience, CommonPlaces delivers award-wining Web and Mobile applications that blend Content Management with custom e-Commerce to help our clients reach the next level of profit and success.

DB Relay
DB Relay is an open source project built around the NGiNX web server platform, providing an HTTP/JSON interface to a variety of database servers. It enables database access without drivers and web application development without middleware. Designed for operational efficiency and ease of maintenance. Hosted at http://www.dbrelay.com/

FireHost
FireHost is a leading Secure Web Hosting company that provides premium Web hosting solutions to protect against today's unique security threats. For small to mid-size businesses with mission critical websites, FireHost delivers secure enterprise-level hosting solutions at affordable rates.

GoDaddy
When you're already good at what you do, having the right resources can take you even further. Join our application developer teams and work with cutting edge technologies. We reward innovation and value hard work. Want to learn more contact us at recruiting@godaddy.com or visit godaddy.com/jobs.

HP
As the world's largest IT company, HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all its customers - from individual consumers to large enterprises. HP helps businesses focus on innovation instead of IT operations by offering robust solutions based on HP inventions, open source software, and industry-standard hardware in a converged infrastructure. In fact, as the leading provider of scalable Linux platforms, HP ships one Linux server every minute. HP not only uses open source within the company extensively but also contributes our expertise to hundreds of open source projects worldwide. In fact, we built tools for open source governance in enterprises, then released them as an open source project called FOSSology. Also, HP helps lead the thriving FOSSBazaar community focused on free and open source governance best practices, education, and tools. Stop by our booth to learn more about open source and Linux from HP.

HTSQL by Prometheus Research
HTSQL by Prometheus Research is the easiest way to connect SQL databases to the web, reducing development time and minimizing mistakes. HTSQL uses simple URL queries, works with open source databases, and is a painless way to create data-driven reports, dashboards, and web applications fast and at low cost.

Impetus Technologies Inc.
Impetus provides Software Product Engineering and Technology R&D services. Offering innovative and agile business models, we partner with our clients comprising large scale ISVs and technology innovators, to deliver cutting-edge software products. Our expertise spans the domains of Data Analytics, Large Data Management, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Performance Engineering, and Social Media. Our contributions to Open Source in the areas of Ruby on Rails, Google App Engine, Hadoop and Apache Shindig are noteworthy examples of our commitment to this community.

Infobright, Inc
Infobright's high performance columnar database, based on MySQL, is the preferred choice for analytic applications and data marts, delivering fast query performance against large data volumes. Easy to implement, with unmatched operational simplicity, Infobright is being used by enterprises, SaaS and software companies to provide rapid access to critical business data. Download Infobright Community Edition and join the Community at infobright.org

JasperSoft
Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence is the world's most widely used BI software, with more than 10 million product downloads worldwide and more than 12,000 commercial customers in 100 countries. Jaspersoft is the only BI vendor enabling true multi-tenancy while providing a common platform for on-premise, virtualized, SaaS and Cloud deployments.

Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 60,000 web publishers, service providers, developers, and educational institutions use Kaltura's flexible platform to enhance their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with advanced customized video, photo and audio functionalities, including publishing, management, syndication, monetization and analysis, as well as content uploading and remixing. The free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available for download at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Founded in 2006, New York-based Kaltura is also a founding member of the 'Open Video Alliance' (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video. For more information: www.kaltura.com and www.kaltura.org.

Marvell
Marvell's expertise in microprocessor architecture and digital signal processing drives multiple platforms including high volume storage solutions, mobile and wireless, networking, consumer and green products. World class engineering and mixed-signal design expertise helps Marvell deliver critical building blocks to its customers, giving them the competitive edge to succeed.

Mashery
Mashery provides on-demand infrastructure for API management and publishing. It offers a powerful, flexible, and automated approach to business development that supports diverse business models. Mashery's secure, scalable management and developer support tools enable its customers to leverage the benefits of an open API, while maintaining focus on core business.

NorthScale, Inc.
NorthScale, the elastic data infrastructure software company, provides a new class of data management technology that scales out, enabling customers to dramatically lower costs while improving scalability and performance of their web applications. NorthScale is behind some of the world's busiest web applications including Zynga's FarmVille and Cafe World.

Open Invention Network
Open Invention Network® (OIN) is a collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. It does this by acquiring and licensing patents royalty free to the OIN community of licensees, influencing behaviors and policy, and protecting the integrity of the ecosystem through strategic programs such as Linux Defenders. OIN enables the growth and continuation of open source software by fostering a healthy Linux ecosystem of investors, vendors, developers and users. OIN has considerable industry backing. It was launched in 2005, and has received investments from IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony.

OpSource
OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource's expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments.

Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.

Parallels
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.

PayPal
PayPal X, PayPal's open payments platform, offers a versatile, easy way to integrate secure, globally-accepted payment functionality directly into almost any experience, product or service. Using an innovative set of APIs, developers can now monetize their applications and innovations quickly and easily. Visit us at X.com where you access the available PayPal technical product offerings, documentation, sample applications and code. See how developers are already creating new ways to pay and get paid with live applications in our app showcase. Join us as we redefine how people globally will pay for the things they want and need everyday.

Percona
Percona is proud to use, create, and sponsor open-source software. Percona's employees have created many open-source software projects, including XtraDB, XtraBackup, and Maatkit. We provide expert services for MySQL and LAMP applications, billed by the hour with no annual commitment. Our global 24x7 team helps hundreds of clients each month to solve performance problems, design scalable applications, and reduce operating expenses.

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) is a Qualcomm subsidiary, focused on enabling and optimizing open source software for use with wireless technology via technical innovations that leverage the advanced capabilities of today's mobile devices, with a particular eye on optimizing platforms and the applications that run on the OS through tight hardware integration. Key QuIC initiatives include optimally mobilizing Linux™ and WebKit™, and contributions to such OSes as Android™, Chrome™ and MeeGo™.

Rhomobile
Rhomobile makes it easy to create cross-platform native applications for all major smartphones with Rhodes, the open-source smartphone app framework. Along with RhoHub, the hosted development as a service for mobile and RhoSync, a standalone server that keeps enterprise application data current and available on users' phones, Rhomobile's suite of products provide a complete mobility solution for enterprises of all sizes.

Schooner Information Technology
Schooner Information Technology provides smooth scaling for datacenters that use MySQL or memcached. Schooner makes plug-and-play appliances that deliver eight-to-one server consolidation in a flash, reduce power consumption, cut the total cost of ownership by 50%, and create new business opportunities by providing fast, reliable access to terabyte-scale data.

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.

SourceGear
SourceGear's open source roots go back to 1998, when they launched the AbiWord project at this conference. They eventually became a successful developer of commercial products for users of Visual Studio. There is no apparent reason why an evil proprietary software vendor like SourceGear would want to be a sponsor of OSCON.

Symbian
Symbian is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to driving innovation in the mobile space. The company manages the open source Symbian platform, which has shipped in over 340 million smartphones around the world to-date. For more information please visit www.symbian.org and developer.symbian.org

VoltDB
Designed by DBMS design pioneer Mike Stonebraker for companies that have outgrown the performance limitations of traditional databases, the open-source VoltDB DBMS provides a very fast, scalable, fault-tolerant and ACID-compliant, distributed SQL database. Visit www.voltdb.com for more info, performance benchmarks and to download the free open-source edition of VoltDB.

WSO2
WSO2 delivers the only complete open source enterprise middleware platform - WSO2 Carbon, available as straightforward server downloads or through WSO2 Stratos as PaaS in private, public, or hybrid clouds. From inception through production WSO2 supports customers with architectural guidance, developer support, and long-term production support. We are a global company located in US, UK and Sri Lanka.