Novell®

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 customers worldwide reduce cost, complexity and risk. Because of our 25 years of experience and our vision of interoperability and flexibility, we deliver powerful, next-generation business infrastructures that enable our customers to stay competitive.

Novell® Making IT Work As One™

IBM

In IBM’s view, today’s networked economy has created a global business landscape and a mandate for business change. Integrated global economies have opened markets of new opportunity and new sources of skills. The Internet has enabled communication and collaboration across the world and brought with it a new computing model premised on continuous global connection. In that landscape, companies can distribute work and technology anywhere in the world.

Learn more at: www.ibm.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 recognition of the value of openness to working with others—including commercial open source vendors and open source communities—to help customers and partners succeed in today’s heterogeneous “world of choice.”

Learn more: www.microsoft.com

North Bridge Venture Partners

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.

Learn more: www.nbvp.com

Red Hat

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

Learn more: www.redhat.com

Canonical

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu®, is committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products, including Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop. World-class commercial support, training and migration/implementation services for Ubuntu are available through Canonical’s global support team and partners. Canonical works with the world's leading IT companies to deliver Ubuntu to the world.

Learn more at: www.canonical.com

Ingres Corporation

Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source database software and support services. Ingres powers customer success by reducing costs through highly innovative products that are hallmarks of an open source deployment and uniquely designed for business critical applications. Ingres supports its customers with a vibrant community and world class support, globally. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres has major development, sales, and support centers throughout the world, and more than 10,000 customers in the United States and internationally.

For more information, visit www.ingres.com

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Learn more at: www.sun.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

DLA Piper

Our Open Source practice group represents clients in virtually every segment
of the open source community, from software and hardware companies to
innovative data management and e-commerce providers. We help clients
develop and operate open source business models and develop strategies and
licensing programs to realize the benefits from open source software. We
provide companies with practical guidance on the implementation and
maintenance of best practices and policies, and advise them on the legal risks
associated with open source software tools. If you are interested in learning
more about DLA Piper’s Open Source practice, please contact Mark Radcliffe
at mark.radcliffe@dlapiper.com or 650-822-2059.

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, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley 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

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,500-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex intellectual property and technology matters, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring and real estate. The Firm has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Kirkland's open source lawyers engage in open source license conflict analysis, software pedigree review and software license compliance audits. When risks are identified, we provide risk mitigation counseling such as dual licensing, structuring and overseeing clean room development, developing open source policies and training programs and licensing source code under open source licenses.

Learn more at: www.kirkland.com

Acquity Group

Acquity Group delivers award-winning, tailored solutions to elevate brands and businesses by maximizing the digital channel. Acquity Group’s innovative strategy, marketing & design, IT planning, and commerce & content services are the cornerstone of effective digital communication for today’s leading brands. To define a unique perspective for your business, contact Acquity Group at www.www.acquitygroup.com

Learn more at: www.www.acquitygroup.com

Dell, Inc.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the 2008 Fortune 500 .

Learn more at: www.dell.com

Adaptive Planning

Learn more at: www.adaptiveplanning.com

Hippo Software

Hippo helps companies manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs through its Content Management and Portal technologies. Hippo provides the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach, and service quality of an established vendor.
Hippo was founded in 1999 and has a global base of over 150 customers across the education, publishing, manufacturing, and financial services industries, as well as several government agencies. Hippo has over 50 employees, 9 committers/members of the Apache Software Foundation and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and San Francisco, California.

Learn more at: www.onehippo.com

Open Source marketing can be as cost effective as Open Source development. But successful commercialization of Free and Open Source Software technology demands marketing as innovative as the FOSS development model. InitMarketing is the Open Source marketing company. Our team understands the dynamics of commercial Open Source, offering not just strategy, but peerless execution across all areas of the marketing mix. With a global network of technology marketers, writers, journalists, community-managers, and business strategists, InitMarketing offers customers a bespoke mix of skills and experience from some of the top practitioners in the Open Source space.

Learn more at: www.initmarketing.com

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. 

Learn more at: www.kaltura.com

Open-Xchange

Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y.

Learn more at: www.open-xchange.com

Pentaho

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform making it the world's leading, most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. Since inception, Pentaho has been the pioneer in commercial open source BI. Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000.

Learn more at: www.pentaho.com

Rhomobile

Rhomobile offers an innovative open source framework for mobilizing enterprise applications. It allows ISVs, integrators and enterprises to write the application once and it runs on all major operating systems: iPhone, RIM Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android. The application then runs natively on the smartphone and synchronizes with the enterprise application, allowing mobile employees to be more efficient, have a better user experience, as well as work off-line.

Learn more at: www.rhomobile.com

SOPERA

SOPERA supports companies in realizing service-oriented architectures (SOA). SOPERA is based on the SOA platform of SOA pioneer Deutsche Post. Into SOPERA has gone the experience from over seven years of developing and operating the platform in a demanding enterprise environment. SOPERA is an open source, modular, standard-based SOA framework, supports best-of-breed concepts and covers the entire SOA lifecycle. Independent of Deutsche Post, SOPERA GmbH offers implementation, consulting and the entire support and service for the software.

Learn more at: www.sopera.de

Engineering Group

SpagoBI, the Free Platform for the development of Business Intelligence solutions at enterprise level, supports day-to-day and strategic business, both at the decision-making and operational level, thanks to its wide offering of analytical tools and to its intuitive user interface. It’s the most popular open source project of the SpagoWorld family, developed and supported by Engineering, an IT global player and Italy’s largest operator in the IT services market.

Learn more at: www.spagoworld.org

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, casual consumers and leading industry professionals seeking and evaluating software solutions.

Learn more at: www.sourceforge.net

Slashdot

Slashdot is the largest community-based technology discussion site on the Web. With peer-tested content, Slashdot's mission is to provide daily information and entertainment through relevant, news-based discussion threads on things that effect technology and the lives of the community who enjoy it.

Learn more at: www.slashdot.org