HP

HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $104.3 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2007.
Learn more: www.hp.com/go/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, Shared Source and Codeplex, Microsoft is focused on participating in a broad range of choices for developing and deploying software, including open source.
Learn more: www.microsoft.com/opensource

Red Hat

Red Hat is the world's most trusted open source provider. Ranked first for value in enterprise software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. We offer enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining the leading open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. We also offer support, training, and consulting services worldwide to help enterprises take full advantage of the value of open source technology.
Learn more: www.redhat.com

IONA

For more than fifteen years, IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA FUSE is a family of open source SOA infrastructure products closely aligned to projects at the Apache Software Foundation: FUSE ESB (Apache ServiceMix), FUSE Message Broker (Apache ActiveMQ), FUSE Services Framework (Apache CXF) and FUSE Mediation Router (Apache Camel).

IONA distributes tested, validated and fully-supported releases of the FUSE products, making them available under the Apache License, and provides enterprise support, maintenance, services and training.
Learn more: http://open.iona.com

Jefferies

Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for 45 years. Headquartered in New York, with more than 25 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. The firm is a leading provider of trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible and international securities for institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF)
Learn more: www.jefferies.com

North Bridge

North Bridge Venture Partners is an active, full-stage (seed to growth) venture capital firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build market defining companies. We bring a unique combination of experience, demonstrated track record and patience to help entrepreneurs succeed in an ever-challenging business environment. We invest in internet, communications, software, materials and other technology markets. Our offices are located in Waltham, MA and San Mateo, CA.

Download the Annual North Bridge Venture Partners/OSBC Future of Open Source Survey.

Novell

Novell, Inc. delivers infrastructure software for the Open Enterprise. Novell is a leader in desktop to data center operating systems based on Linux and the software required to secure and manage mixed IT environments. Novell helps customers around the world minimize cost, complexity and risk, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth.
Learn more: www.novell.com

Oracle

Oracle is committed to offering choice, flexibility, and lower computing costs for customers. By investing significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, and supporting open source technologies such as Linux, PHP, Apache, Eclipse, Berkeley DB, and InnoDB, Oracle clearly embraces and offers open source solutions for development and deployment. With the first commercial database for Linux in 1998, Oracle began a commitment to enhancing, supporting, and promoting Linux. Today, Oracle Unbreakable Linux delivers enterprise-class support for Linux with premier backports, lifetime support, comprehensive Linux server lifecycle management, full indemnification, extensive testing and more, all at significantly lower cost.
Learn more: www.oracle.com/opensource

Adaptive Planning

Adaptive Planning, the leading provider of collaborative performance management solutions, makes it easy for midsized companies and departments to move beyond spreadsheets and automate their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. With instant online access, rapid configuration, low subscriptions, and a free entry-level version, Adaptive Planning is easy: easy to test drive, easy to get started, easy to customize, and easy to afford. If you are ready to move beyond Excel and dramatically improve your budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, the choice is easy - Adaptive Planning.
Learn more: www.adaptiveplanning.com

Black Duck

Black Duck Software is a global provider of managed software component reuse solutions. We help organizations safely use open source and third party code components while managing their licensing obligations and mitigating business risks.

Black Duck provides products and services to help organizations understand the composition and origin of their software. By enabling organizations to fully manage component use within a software development life cycle, companies produce better quality software, reduce development and maintenance costs, and speed time-to-market.
Learn more: www.blackducksoftware.com

EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB develops and supports EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, the world's leading Oracle-compatible relational database management system (RDBMS). EnterpriseDB Advanced Server runs most applications written for Oracle unchanged and at a small fraction of Oracle's cost. Built on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database, EnterpriseDB Advanced Server has the reliability and scalability necessary for high-volume, mission-critical enterprise use. For more information, please contact +1-732-331-1300.
Learn more: www.enterprisedb.com

Ingres

Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company's partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities.
Learn more: www.ingres.com

SugarCRM

SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. Sugar easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. SugarCRM's open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM offers several deployment options, including on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions to suit customers' security, integration and configuration needs.
Learn more: www.sugarcrm.com

Baker & McKenzie LLP

Our sourcing and offshoring practitioners have advised on a number of high profile outsourcing and re-sourcing arrangements over the recent years. We have substantial experience handling all types of outsourcing transactions, ranging from traditional information technology outsourcing deals to the newer human resource, financial and accounting and other business process outsourcings. Baker & McKenzie's outsourcing practitioners advise on single jurisdiction relationships to million dollar cross-border transactions. We represent a broad mix of suppliers and users of information and communication technology. On the supplier side, our client base ranges from small start-ups to the very largest of IT multinationals. Our user clients include many leading companies across all industry sectors, including financial services, pharmaceuticals and retail.
Learn more: www.bakernet.com

Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Cooley Godward Kronish's 600 attorneys have an entrepreneurial spirit and deep, substantive experience, and are committed to solving clients' most challenging legal matters. From small companies with big ideas to international enterprises with diverse legal needs, Cooley has the breadth of legal resources to enable companies of all sizes to seize opportunities in today's global marketplace. The firm represents clients across a broad array of dynamic industry sectors, including technology, life sciences, financial services, retail and energy.

The firm has full-service offices in major commercial, government and technology centers: Palo Alto, CA, New York, NY, San Diego CA, San Francisco, CA, Reston, VA, Broomfield, CO, Washington, D.C. and Boston, MA.
Learn more: www.cooley.com

DLA Piper

DLA Piper works on open source matters with a wide range of companies, ranging from startups such as SugarCRM and Socialtext to large companies such as Sony Corporation and Sun Microsystems. Mark Radcliffe leads the group and has been active in the open source community: pro bono outside General Counsel of the Open Source Initiative and chair of Committee C for the Free Software Foundation in reviewing the GPLv3. The firm provides these services: development of open source policies and licenses, providing due diligence assistance for mergers, and drafting contract provisions and representations on open source issues.
Learn more: www.dlapiper.com

Goodwin Procter LLP

Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation's leading law firms, with a team of 850 attorneys and offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The firm develops innovative solutions to complex legal problems and couples practical legal advice with proactive strategic counsel. We provide legal services to Fortune 500 and other companies in matters involving intellectual property, complex litigation, corporate/transactional work, real estate and financial services.

Goodwin Procter's Open Source Software Practice is devoted to helping clients understand and manage their use of open source software in a proactive, commercially-aware strategic manner. We assist clients in: appropriate use of open source software, open source compliance programs, use of automated tools to manage software licensing, open source business strategy development and implementation, cost-benefit analysis of open source usage, and intellectual property due diligence, including open source review.
Learn more: www.goodwinprocter.com

Holme, Roberts & Owen LLP

HRO is a full-service international law firm providing legal services to clients throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. HRO has developed a specialized focus on helping both producers and consumers of technology contend with and reduce the legal impediments to using and commercializing open source software. Our experience includes the gamut of open source software issues, including: Compliance policies and procedures; Code release and distribution issues; Code reviews and diligence audits; and License enforcement inquiries.

For more information on successfully leveraging open source software in your business, please contact Jason Haislmaier.
Learn more: www.hro.com

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,400-attorney law firm representing global clients in intellectual property, complex corporate and tax, litigation, and workout, insolvency and bankruptcy matters. The Firm has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Learn more: www.kirkland.com

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide. The firm's broad range of services and legal disciplines is focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and antitrust, among many other areas of law. With long-standing roots in Silicon Valley, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has offices in Austin, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C.
Learn more: www.wsgr.com

ActiveState

ActiveState creates professional software development tools, programming language distributions, and business solutions for dynamic languages, and practical tools and applications for social networking platforms. ActiveState solves complex problems and produces cool and useful applications that help people live more productive and enjoyable lives. ActiveState technology "just works." ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a publicly traded investment company focused on technology in British Columbia.
Learn more: www.activestate.com

BitRock

BitRock makes Open Source Software easier to use by providing a complete, automated solution for Open Source Application Deployment (OSAD). By establishing a single, consistent and simplified application deployment process across multiple operating system platforms, open source applications are easier to install, manage and support. Leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), systems integrators and IT departments throughout the world use BitRock to automate Application Stack Integration, Packaging, Installation and Update. With BitRock, application adoption is increased, and total cost of stack development is significantly reduced.
Learn more: www.bitrock.com

Cleversafe

Cleversafe is the leader in dispersed storage technology, the ideal way to store large, growing amounts of digital assets cost effectively. Founded in 2004, the company is backed by world-class investors including NEA, OCA Ventures, Harrison Street Capital and Alsop-Louie Partners. Cleversafe is also the sponsor of an open source community movement to help standardize Dispersed Storage™ technology through its cleversafe.org project.
Learn more: www.cleversafe.com

Digium

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk company, is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform. Digium provides hardware and software products, including AsteriskNOW™, the complete open source software appliance; Asterisk Business Edition™, the professional-grade version of Asterisk; and the Asterisk Appliance™, hardware-based telephony solution, to enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers a full range of professional services, including consulting, technical support, and custom software development. Used in combination with Digium's telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures.
Learn more: www.digium.com

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

Engineering Group, with a network of 30 branch offices in Italy, offices in Dublin, Madrid and Brussels, 4100 employees, is the main Italian IT player, active in the entire software production chain: development, system and business integration, outsourcing, products and solutions, process and management, consulting. Engineering provides its customers with its experience and knowledge in the selection, integration, validation and support of the best open source components. The key points of Engineering's corporate strategy to transform OSS into an opportunity for its marketing offer are the industrial use of OSS, providing complete support services, and the development and promotion of the SpagoWorld Initiative, including SpagoBI, the Business Intelligence Free Platform and Spagic, the Free SOA/BPM Enterprise Integration Platform. Engineering is strategic member and co-founder of OW2 Consortium.
Learn more: www.eng.it and www.spagoworld.org

Enomaly

Enomaly is an Open-Source Software and Services business based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Company's IT Services business is focused entirely on providing development and support for Open Source technologies, primarily Enterprise class open source content management systems, Drupal, TYPO3, and Alfresco. Enomaly has built hundreds of CMS-based systems for a variety of companies including ones that integrate complex websites, digital asset management, customer relationship management integration, ecommerce, portals and web based corporate communications. EnomalyLabs serves as Enomaly's software unit. The Company's products include Virtual Server Management, Scalable Remote Storage systems, and On-Demand Computing capabilities. More information on these products can be seen at Enomalism.com, Elasticdrive.com, Distributedpotential.com.
Learn more: www.enomaly.com

KnowledgeTree

KnowledgeTree is the leading provider of commercial open source document management software designed for teams and small to medium-sized organizations. The KnowledgeTree Open Source project has significant community traction with more than 25,000 registered community members, over 400,000 open source software downloads to date, and 67 community-run projects. The web-based and AJAX-enabled application is built on the popular open source LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. KnowledgeTree is run by small and big business alike - users include Fortune 500 companies, community organizations, local and state governments, and educational, medical and scientific organizations around the world.
Learn more: www.knowledgetree.com

LINAGORA

LINAGORA is one of leading OSS company with 130+ employees; based in France, Belgium & US. We offer a unique range of software and services: OBM (Messaging and calendar solution, http://obm.org), My PKI (http://www.ejbca.org), OSSA ("Open Source Software Assurance"), Training and Professional Services. Key customers: French Parliament, Tax and Police Ministries, AREVA, Air France and many more.
Learn more: http://www.linagora.com/

MySQL

MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company's flagship offering is "MySQL Enterprise," a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders, Yahoo!, Google, Nokia, and YouTube. With headquarters in the United States and Sweden, MySQL AB supports open source values and corporate customers' needs.
Learn more: www.mysql.com

OpenLogic

OpenLogic is a leading provider of open source solutions that enable enterprises to safely acquire, support, and control open source software. OpenLogic provides enterprises with a certified library of open source software that encompasses hundreds of the most popular open source packages. With the broadest open source coverage in the industry, OpenLogic offers indemnification, updates, and enterprise-grade technical support backed by the OpenLogic Expert Community. The OpenLogic solution also enforces open source policies and automates the integration and deployment of open source components, thereby reducing the risk and maximizing the cost savings associated with using open source software.
Learn more: www.openlogic.com

Pentaho

Pentaho Corporation provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho's mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by a commercial open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including JFreeReport, Kettle, Mondrian, and Weka. Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.
Learn more: www.pentaho.com

ProcessMaker

ProcessMaker®, developed by Colosa Inc., is a commercial open source workflow and business process management software suite that allows small to medium-sized organizations to automate document intensive, approval-based processes across various systems including finance, HR and operations. ProcessMaker is an entirely web-based, AJAX-enabled application that is built on the popular open source LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. The ProcessMaker suite includes tools to design forms, create documents, assign roles and users, create routing rules, and is designed with a full service-orientated architecture (SOA) and Web Services interface allowing the software to directly connect with popular business intelligence (BI), content management (CMS), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. ProcessMaker clients include commercial banks, insurance companies, and governments.
Learn more: www.processmaker.com

The rSmart Group

The rSmart Group is the leading open source application software company serving the education market. rSmart packages, certifies, deploys, and supports a suite of enterprise financial and collaborative learning applications for colleges, universities, and institutions serving grades K-12. As an active member of open source projects like Kuali and Sakai, rSmart is able to provide its clients with software applications specifically designed to meet the unique needs of educational institutions. This collaborative approach allows rSmart to offer open source applications that break the dependence of educational institutions on traditional proprietary software vendors.
Learn more: www.rsmart.com

Trolltech

Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech's Qt is used in popular software such as Skype, Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Lucasfilm and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech's Qtopia has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech's software has shipped in more than 10 million devices. Trolltech's products enable companies to easily build and deploy software across a wide range of operating systems and electronic devices. The company serves desktop and embedded application providers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile vendors, who face challenges in delivering user-friendly and differentiated software. The future proof Qt software allows developers to code less, create more and deploy anywhere.
Learn more: www.trolltech.com

Univa UD

Univa UD is the global leader in open source grid and cluster computing. The company's industrial-strength products represent the proven and cost-effective alternative to traditional proprietary offerings that customers have been waiting for. Based on a combination of open source and commercial components, Univa UD products operate production environments across a range of Fortune 1000 companies. The company also delivers policy-driven automation solutions for data center environments.
Learn more: www.UnivaUD.com or www.Grid.Org

WSO2

WSO2 is the open source SOA company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation Web services project. The company is delivering a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA. WSO2's first products are the WSO2 Web services Application Server (WSO2 WSAS) and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB), which are built on the WSO2 Web services Framework. They recently added a Mashup Server and Registry to the product lineup. While WSO2 products are free to download, the company sells support, consulting and training services for Web services and SOA.
Learn more: http://wso2.com

xTuple

xTuple delivers open source Enterprise Resource Planning solutions. xTuple ERP PostBooks Edition, consistently in the Top 5 projects at SourceForge, is our entry-level offering, suitable for small businesses of all kinds. It includes full financials, CRM, sales, purchasing, financial and ad-hoc reporting, and light manufacturing and distribution. The Standard Edition is a midrange offering adding advanced inventory control, warehousing, and other enterprise features. The OpenMFG Edition is our premium product, recommended for manufacturing companies. All are built on the same code base, run equally well on Windows, Linux/Unix, and Mac, and are fully internationalized (multi-currency, multiple tax structures, and multilingual.)
Learn more: www.xtuple.com

Zenoss

Zenoss Inc. delivers open source IT management solutions to organizations across the globe. Flagship product Zenoss Core is a complete network monitoring and systems management platform that discovers networked IT resources, monitors them for performance and availability, and tracks changes through a configuration management database (CMDB). One of the ten most active projects on SourceForge.Net, Zenoss software was downloaded over 350,000 times in 2007. Recent product accolades include Network World's Clear Choice Award, Enterprise Open Source Magazine Readers' Choice Award, and a nomination for Best Technical Design in the SourceForge 2007 Community Choice Awards. Zenoss' customers include some of the world's largest corporations as well as Federal and State government agencies. Zenoss, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Annapolis, MD.
Learn more: www.zenoss.com

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Putting Open Source to Work

The 5th Year of the Open Source Business Conference brings together senior business leaders, C-level technical strategists, lawyers and venture capitalists to collaborate on emerging business models, strategies and profitability for open source software use.

March 25-26, 2008
Palace Hotel
San Francisco, CA

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--Legal
--Open Source Vendor Community
--IT Analysts

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