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.
Carasoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider, combining technological expertise with a thorough understanding of the government procurement process to help federal, state and local government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft is the largest government partner and serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors.
IBM is the world's largest information technology services company, with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business.
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.
A singular vision, The Network is the Computer™, drives Sun in delivering industry-leading technologies that focus on the whole system - where hardware, software, and services combine. With a proven history of sharing, building communities, and innovation, Sun creates opportunities, both social and economic, around the world. You can learn more about Sun at sun.com.
As Red Hat’s Largest Government Reseller, DLT Solutions has helped government agencies overcome real-world challenges through its best-in-class information technology products and superior services. DLT is Red Hat’s Exclusive VAR to Academic Institutions and offers accessibility to multiple contract vehicles (www.dlt.com/contracts). To learn more, call us today at 877-RHAT-DLT or visit www.dlt.com/redhat
Jaspersoft’s open source business intelligence suite is the world’s most widely used BI software, with more than 10 million product downloads worldwide and more than 11,000 commercial customers in 96 countries. Jaspersoft’s software is rapidly updated by a community of more than 100,000 registered members. More information is available at www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.
Representing a new generation of Enterprise IT Management, Zenoss Enterprise is a new class of offering that includes complete operational and infrastructure coverage in a single product. Hundreds of government agencies already use Zenoss IT monitoring solutions, taking advantage of Zenoss' combination of high functionality and low cost. With the increasing pressure on every level of IT to make financially responsible decisions, Zenoss solutions are the perfect fit.
AnalyzeSoft provides the consultation, customization, implementation, and support of Government Community Source Solutions.
Government Community Source Solutions are software applications, often written in Open Source technologies, that can be transferred from one government agency or department to another – typically from one state to another state among similar agencies – at 10% to 30% of the cost of a COTS product.
August Schell is a leading edge Technology Solutions Provider specializing in Cloud Computing technologies, Data Center Automation, Virtualization, Identity Management (PKI/PKE), and Unstructured Data Search and Retrieval for organizations involved in Defense and National Security. August Schell is also a software product reseller to Federal, State and Local government.
Autonomic is an information technology and service integration firm servicing United States Federal government civilian, intelligence and the Department of Defense agencies. With a history dating back to 2001, and Certified as an SBA 8(a) firm in 2005 – Autonomic has been applying leading technologies to meet the diverse needs of our customers. Our core capabilities involve the implementation of strategic technologies related to cloud computing, open source technology insertion and adoption, information assurance, nextgen networking, and software development services.
EnterpriseDB is the leading provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. The company's Postgres Plus® products are ideally suited for transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, massive scalability, and compatibility with proprietary database products.
Google is a proud user and supporter of Open Source software and development methodologies. As a company, Google contributes back to the Open Source community in a variety of ways, including source code, Project Hosting on Google Code, and our student programs Google Summer of Code(TM) and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest(TM). For more information on Google's open source activities, visit code.google.com/opensource.
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI), offering up to a 90% lower TCO. Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration / ETL, data mining and a BI platform. Pentaho’s annual subscription provides support, services and product enhancements: www.pentaho.com.
Rock Creek Strategic Marketing develops new media strategies and leads branding initiatives for government, nonprofits and business. For nearly 25 years, Rock Creek has provided the vision, tools and support that clients need to compete and succeed.
Tresys innovates and applies advanced technologies to quickly solve the needs of customers requiring agile responsiveness to security requirements. By leveraging secure open source software, our products and services support the most sensitive security missions around the world. As a result Tresys enjoys a distinct reputation for shifting the way governments and businesses approach security.
DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (DC ACM)
Since 1958, the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the ACM (DC ACM) provides opportunities for academics, professionals, and policymakers to share their interests in the information technology. Our Technical Symposiums, monthly Distinguished Speaker series, and Professional Development Seminar series provides unique opportunities to form meaningful connections within the DC area community.
Drupal is an open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize web content. Tens of thousands of organizations use Drupal to power community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and much more.
GovLoop is the "Facebook for Government" - the premier social network developed by and for the government community. This site currently connects over 20,000 government innovators from federal, state, and local government and provides a great way for the government community to connect and collaborate with existing and potential colleagues. The network is a great resource whether you are looking to network with peers, get career advice, find new opportunities, or discover great career events; an absolute must for today's gov't leaders.
Open Source for America (OSFA) is an effort to raise awareness in the U.S. Federal Government about the benefits of open source software. We hope to encourage the government's utilization of open source software participation in open source software projects, and incorporation of open source community dynamics to enable transparency. Participation includes a diverse cross-section of technology industry leaders, associations, non-governmental organizations, communities and academic/research institutions.
The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a US-based non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open source software solutions within US Federal, state and municipal government agencies.
IT is enabling significant changes in our government. The implications for average Americans are profound. The voice of tomorrow’s government today, MeriTalk is an online community at the crossroads of IT and public policy. Designed to mix new faces, new voices, and fresh perspectives from government IT, workforce, and policy leaders, MeriTalk enables new cross-cutting debate.
The Open Source Lab is home to growing, high-impact open source communities. Its world-class hosting services have enabled Linux, Apache, Firefox and over 50 other leading open source software projects to reach millions of users. Through custom development and industry events, the Lab's staff and students encourage open source adoption in education, government, health care and other sectors.
