Sponsors for OSCON 2011

Microsoft
Microsoft recognizes the industry need for interoperability as there is a greater shift towards mixed environments. Microsoft's interoperability team builds interoperability between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies, including open source software and applications. Operating as an advocate for industry standards that enable collaboration, Microsoft's interoperability team is focused on ensuring companies and organizations thrive in mixed source environments. Microsoft recognizes the need for diverse IT applications and systems to have the ability to effectively and efficiently exchange information-to foster industry growth and innovation, provide greater consumer choice, and help maximize return on IT investments. For examples of ongoing interoperability work at Microsoft, please visit www.interoperabilitybridges.com.

Nebula
Nebula is dedicated to enabling all businesses to easily, securely, and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. Nebula has developed a hardware appliance that allows any business to easily build a massive enterprise-grade private computing cloud from hundreds or thousands of inexpensive commodity servers. Nebula was founded in April 2011 by Chris C. Kemp, Steve O'Hara and Devin Carlen. Nebula's mission is to ignite a new era of global innovation by laying the foundation of the coming "industrial revolution of big data."

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 more than 20 million lines of source code, project hosting on Google Code, programs for students including Google Summer of Code and the Google Code-in Contest, and support for a wide variety of projects, LUGS, and events around the world. Learn more at code.google.com/opensource/.

SugarCRM
SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine , InfoWorld , Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise. For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that helps over 500 million people around the world communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and over the past few years, the company has developed a number of open source infrastructure technologies to support the site's growth including HipHop for PHP, Cassandra, Hive, Scribe, and Thrift. Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects especially around the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.

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.

Intel
The Open Source Technology Center is at the heart of Intel's open source development efforts. Through measurable leadership in upstream contributions, project participation and maintenance, the Intel OTC helps shape the user experience across an array of products. MeeGo. Yocto Project. Linux Kernel. Less Watts. Linux Graphics. ConnMan. oFono. ACPICA. Android. Google Chrome. Mesa 3D Graphics Library. Cairo. Clutter. OpenSolaris. Xen. KVM.

Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace® Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

WSO2
WSO2 delivers the only complete open source middleware platform. With its revolutionary componentized design, WSO2 middleware adapts to the project for a lean, targeted solution to enterprise applications. Fully cloud-native, the WSO2 middleware platform is also the only open source platform-as-a-service for private and public clouds available today. With WSO2, seamless migration and integration between servers, private clouds, and public clouds is now a reality.

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BlackBerry
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software, and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services, and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems, and software/hardware licensing agreements. For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

CUBRID
CUBRID is a comprehensive open source RDBMS optimized for Web applications. Written in C, CUBRID provides clean architecture with competitive performance, rich functionality and support for MySQL syntax. Its High-Availability feature, sync/async/semi-sync replication, online and incremental backup, query plan caching and many other enterprise level features allow CUBRID to be ideal for Web services.

Dell
Dell, Inc. helps customers succeed by understanding their issues and needs and delivering innovative, high-value IT solutions. Dell is the infrastructure partner for the world's largest cloud computing providers and hyperscale data center operators, offering customized systems and services. Through its Cloud Solutions and PowerEdge C systems, Dell is bringing that experience to a wider audience helping customers build efficient cloud computing and scaled-out data center infrastructures.

eBay
With more than 94 million active users globally, eBay is the world's largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything. Founded in 1995, eBay connects a diverse and passionate community of individual buyers and sellers, as well as small businesses. Their collective impact on e-commerce is staggering: In 2010, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $62 billion -- more than $2,000 every second

Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform for Ruby - a new way of building and deploying web apps. Developers can put 100% focus on code, not servers, deployment, operations or scaling. We're passionate and active supporters of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Tens of thousands of developers have deployed hundreds of thousands of apps to Heroku.

InfiniteGraph
InfiniteGraph is a unique distributed, scalable, NOSQL graph database enabling large-scale, fast graph processing, data analytics and discovery of information around mission critical enterprise requirements. Organizations use InfiniteGraph to discover complex relationships in data and develop applications with significant time-to-market advantages, technical cost savings and achieve greater return on data related investments by connecting the dots on a global scale. http://www.infinitegraph.com/

JBoss
JBoss, by Red Hat, is the leader in enterprise-class open source middleware. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is comprised of certified, supported platform and framework distributions that are based on JBoss Community projects. Products truly alternative to pricey, monolithic proprietary software stacks, JBoss Enterprise Middleware is a comprehensive open source middleware portfolio that includes both integrated platforms and plug-and-play frameworks that give users more flexibility and technology choice. Visit www.jboss.com for more information.

LeaseWeb
LeaseWeb is Europe's leading quality hosting provider, with an outstanding global network. We are growing rapidly, and seek world-class developers and engineers to help build the next generation of cutting-edge products and platforms. Want to know more - visit the LeaseWeb recruiter at our booth. Hope to see you there!

Liferay
Liferay is the leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, recognized by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant and used by Fortune 500 companies including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay, Inc. offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments.

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.

OpenShift
OpenShift by Red Hat is a free platform-as-a-service for developers who want a choice when it comes to frameworks, middleware and clouds. Whether you are a Java, Ruby, Python, node.js or PHP developer, OpenShift is the fastest on-ramp to deploy, manage monitor and auto-scale your app in the cloud.

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.

Percona
Percona makes MySQL more valuable to customers and users by advancing the performance of the database, and by teaching clients how to achieve high performance and scalability with MySQL. Our flagship product is Percona Server with XtraDB, an enhanced, open-source variant of the MySQL database with an improved version of the InnoDB storage engine. Our founders wrote the book High Performance MySQL and are world-famous MySQL experts. We provide consulting, support, training, and development services for MySQL.

Puppet Labs
Puppet Labs develops and commercially supports Puppet, the leading open source platform for datacenter and systems management. Puppet automates and standardizes how machines are configured, managed and controlled in the enterprise and the cloud. With Puppet, your team can manage more systems with less effort.

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm that focuses on mobile open source contributions with the goal of enabling the faster advancement of the wireless industry as a whole. QuIC maintains the AllJoyn(tm) open source project, and contributes to other projects including Android(tm), Chromium(tm), Linux(tm), and WebKit.

Rentrak
Rentrak Corporation is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable names in the entertainment industry. For more than two decades, entertainment insiders have relied on Rentrak's innovative software and progressive technology to interpret their complex audience data and drive their businesses and the industry forward. Whether an established Hollywood film studio, a local video store, an unrated cable network or an emerging provider of live mobile TV, entertainment providers from across the industry utilize Rentrak's revolutionary products and services to gain the insights needed to better understand their audiences and effectively compete in an increasingly complex media environment. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Mexico, Russia, Spain and The United Kingdom.

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.

SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in on-demand web hosting and data center services. As the largest hosting company in the world, SoftLayer lets customers create Cloud, Dedicated, or seamlessly integrated computing environments, leveraging world-class data centers in Dallas, Houston, Seattle, and Washington D.C., and network Points of Presence nationwide. SoftLayer automates all elements of its platform, empowering enterprises of any size with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. The company's proprietary offerings include the industry's first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access, providing remote access to all management options.

SourceGear
Founded in 1997, SourceGear has been developing solutions for software development teams for 15 years. The latest offering from SourceGear is Veracity, the next step in Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS). Veracity is open source (Apache License version 2.0).

Urban Airship
Urban Airship makes mobile apps engaging, effective, efficient, scalable and profitable. Developers turn to Urban Airship to layer on push notification, in-app purchase, subscription, and quantitative data-tracking services. With Urban Airship, sending messages to multiple platforms is as easy as dropping in one drop-in library for real-time communication with iOS, Android, and Blackberry users. urbanairship.com

Vertica
Vertica, an HP Company, offers a software-based analytics platform designed to help monetize data in real time and at massive scale. With data warehouses and data marts ranging from hundreds of gigabytes to multi-petabytes, Vertica's 350+ customers are redefining the speed of business and enhancing their competitive advantage with Vertica.

VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform - VMware vSphere® - customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization, which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs.

(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.